Word: sin
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...game was characterized by defensive lapses, lost opportunities on two five-on-three situations, and a never-ending series of penalties that left the Harvard sin bin occupied for most of the evening...
...outside world: "We have decided how sad it is for other people that they cannot appreciate our genius." Later, after the girls make love to their saints (and each other), she writes, "We have learned the peace of the thing called bliss, the joy of the thing called sin." And the morning of the murder, she notes, "I felt very excited and night-before-Christmasy last night...
...film's triumph is to communicate this creepy excitement with urgency and great cinematic brio, while neither condescending to the girls nor apologizing for their sin. The film's serendipitous stroke was to find Winslet and, especially, Lynskey, a first-time actress. They are perfect, fearless in embodying teenage hysteria. They declaim their lines with an intensity that approaches ecstasy, as if reading aloud from Wuthering Heights. The giggles that punctuate the girls' early friendship are not beneath Winslet and Lynskey. The screams that end the film are not beyond them...
...mythological Orpheus committed the grievous sin of loving too much. In the face of death and disbelief, the great musician's undying affection for his muse proved to be her demise. Williams' modern incarnation of the doomed Eurydice is Lady Torrence (played by Melanie Martinez), the proud daughter of a "wop bootlegger who burned to death in his orchard...
...music on Keineg's debut album, O Seasons O Castles, is folksy and hypnotic, the lyrics both heartfelt and cerebral. The title is from an Arthur Rimbaud poem that reads, "O Seasons, O Castles/ What soul is without sin!" Several songs on the CD explore sin, including Franklin, which is about a woman breaking away from an abusive partner. "I'm going to find me a good man who don't drink/ who don't shout/ who don't throw my prized possessions about," sings Keineg, who has a throaty alto with just a touch of mysterious smokiness...