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...real shock here then—and the effect that isn’t advertised or written about—is Diabaté’s dominance over Touré, which seems to stem solely from the nature of their instruments...
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...
...boys’ decisions were greeted with varying levels of surprise. “When I told people from home I was going to an all-girls school, everyone would just kind of look at me in shock,” Cocco recalls. “My high school Latin teacher, who’s 25, told me up-front that he was jealous...
...culture shock,” says a jeans-clad James R. Pautz ’06, who hopes to get recruited by Teach for America. “I’m thinking about buying a suit...
...This is a nation that can go from shock to trance in two weeks," Senator Obama said last week. The current debate on poverty is likely to blow away by the time hurricane season ends. But Katrina and Rita offer those who actually care about poor people a chance to rethink their strategy. Certainly it is time to move beyond victimhood and race-based aggrievement to something more intelligent and inclusive. There are nearly twice as many poor white people living in the U.S. as poor blacks; the black poverty rate diminished dramatically-from 33.4% to 22.5%-during the Clinton...