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...oppression emanated from the police who watched with a mixture of amusement and disdain at the pathetically sober freshmen and the sheer disdain of having to sacrifice a Saturday for this...
These plots are acted out by a large and largely interchangeable cast of characters--Next feels less like a novel than some kind of interminable convention. You can recognize the good guys, who are sober and clear-eyed. You can recognize the bad guys, who are reckless and shortsighted, and if you still don't get it, they're mean to children. The villains here are all people, which is a problem, since Crichton's people are a lot less plausibly human than his dinosaurs, of which there are zero in Next. There's only one authentically chilling moment, when...
Watching The Good German, you feel the unease, the discontent, of its makers with their basic material. They pile up style points as they flirt with quite sober issues involving loyalty and guilt. The result is a movie that is never quite amusing but never quite mordantly thought provoking either...
...sound more like one of Will Ferrell’s lines in “Zoolander” than an artistic credo.But Galliano’s words—shown next to his spring 2006 haute couture collection for iconic fashion house Christian Dior—are displayed with sober seriousness in a new exhibit at the MFA. Galliano is one of ten designers from the world of Paris fashion whose latest creations are on display in the MFA’s “Fashion Show,” which is on display now and runs through March...
...drunk. Tally up all these factors and consider them independently, says Adams, and you could arrive at a statistical prediction that a disturbed, drunken young man driving in the middle of the night is 2.7 million times more likely to be involved in a serious accident than would a sober, middle-aged woman driving to church seven hours later...