Word: shock
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Heading the clan is Jeff Daniels, who gives a reading so naked and true, so dense and pitiless, that it may shock viewers used to the actor's teddy-bear persona. Daniels realized it was a stretch, if not a break, from his typical parts. "I took the role because I didn't know how to do it," he says. "It was new, it was unpredictable and there was a chance to fail." Which is what makes his success as Bernard so satisfying. It's the kind of role that nudges viewers toward a career reconsideration of an actor...
...just an utter shock," Oxnam tells TIME, "as if an earthquake had just hit. My second reaction was that this was hogwash. It had to be a doctor pulling a scam." Eventually he accepted the diagnosis, and Smith began teasing out the hidden personalities, helping Oxnam discover them one by one. In order to help others who might be suffering--and, says Oxnam, "to offer a look at the multiple nature that is in all of us"--he wrote A Fractured Mind...
Your Katrina photo essay "Ghost Town" [Sept. 19] featured a reprehensible picture of a lifeless body floating face-down in the contaminated muck of New Orleans. That was disrespectful to the dead and their families. You may have intended to show readers the horrors of Katrina, but it was shock journalism...
...doubt many readers are as disgusted as I by China's use of coerced sterilization and abortion. But perhaps we should temper our shock by recognizing that China, with more than 20% of the earth's population, has a real and extremely serious population problem for which there may not be any painless or entirely humane solutions. The Chinese have a collective cultural memory of famine and mass starvation. We need to be aware of the reasons for China's population-control policies...
Despite Moore’s impressive versatility as an actress (she exudes maternal competence here as confidently as she exudes sexuality in “Boogie Nights”), her Evelyn is, as her husband points out, “just too damn happy.” The shock she displays upon winning a bicycle is almost as affected as the unfazed façade she puts on for her kids when Kelly tears into one of his asinine drunken outbursts. Thus, by the time Evelyn finally breaks down towards the film’s end, it is hard...