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...difficult to peruse the site without getting into semiotics. Sure, it’s just fundraising, yet somebody is cashing in on it. I can’t help but feel this site sums up a Presidency so glossy smooth in presentation yet so ruthlessly empty at its core. This is the Presidency that brought us “No child left behind” education legislation while ducking the question of funding, slashed environmental regulations while promoting the virtues of forest fire prevention in Oregon, and rammed through a top heavy tax-cut while giving empty lip service...
...stiffish likes of Lana Turner and Rock Hudson. Quaid makes a decent man's anguish richly palpable. Moore makes us feel hidden frenzy with a cool and ultimately heartbreaking grace. As a result, Far from Heaven ironizes without parodying an antique screen manner, then reaches out from beneath this smooth cover to grab us. It's the Sirk movie--fully alert to all his shadowy implications--that Sirk may or may not have intended but never actually made...
...order two martinis (both $9.50)—a Green Goose (Grey Goose orange, Cointreau, splash of sour apple, sugar rim) and a Chocolate Cherry (Stoli vanilla, Kahlua, amaretto, crème de cocoa, dash of grenadine). We laud the smooth, mellow acidity of the first and are revolted by the cluttered confusion of the second. Vanilla, coffee, almond, chocolate and red fruits jostling for attention? What a garbled gimmick...
...There?s also a movie from this year, Law Chi-leung?s ?Inner Senses,? with Leslie Cheung as a psychiatrist gradually unhinged by a patient who ... sees ghosts. There?s a smooth creepiness at work here, and it?s always a treat to see Leslie go mad on screen, but the picture?s function in this series is mainly to provide a comparison between the relatively reserved, calculated product of today and the magnificently unsettling movie spew of colonial days...
...couple of weeks before you bottle it.” As for Haller’s hops, Meyers says, “I tend personally to like using lower alpha-acid hops to bitter.” The porter garners a more enthusiastic reception. “Dry...chocolate...smooth,” DeBisschop scribbles on his judging sheet...