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...biggest challenges for this event is accounting for its sheer size,” said Arbuthnott, who led a five-member Crimson Key committee that worked with the Parents Association to coordinate the weekend...
...another with great enthusiasm, but her wistful eyes hint that she wants more from life. Academy Award-winning actress Frances McDormand skillfully captures Miss Pettigrew’s understated wisdom. She speaks sparingly, but when she does, she says something either charmingly clumsy or surprisingly perceptive. Sometimes the sheer absurdity of her situation makes you laugh, but not without regrets—this woman has suffered in life and teeters on the brink of poverty, but she gets the chance to live again in the course of a single day. The movie’s production values work well together...
...sure to bring a smile to the average face. The scene was just long enough to be amusing, and just short enough to make the viewer yearn for more. The close-ups on Moon and Brown were aptly timed, catching their subjects at perfect moments of bewilderment or sheer anger. Another funny episode finds the Tropics donning heavy black eyeliner to frighten a big-shot team. There is no one reason why this movie fails so greatly. The shoddy finale comes close, and will definitely leave viewers thinking that they’ve wasted ten precious dollars and a whole...
...climate change is definitely going to be the biggest issue." There's still hope for the worst effects of global warming to be avoided, if we can come together globally, and projects like Steger's can only help. But the truth is that for the Arctic, at least, the sheer momentum of greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere means that profound climatic change is virtually unavoidable, no matter what we do. "Within a decade or less, it's going to be impossible to reach the North Pole," says Steger. "If we're not taking action immediately, we're running...
...their panties over their hips with a prolonged, deliberate awkwardness. They didn’t let the audience forget that what they were doing was something that everyone in that room did every day. There was something more in this than the razzle-dazzle of the pasties or the sheer stage presence of the performers. I began to see in burlesque the glimmer, the shiver, of art. It was the pole dancing, though, that really convinced me. Performance artist Erin Markey started out with comedy, talking about trying to support herself after college by becoming a stripper. Markey...