Word: spirit
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...Some viewers eagerly anticipate squirming; that's the fun of live TV. On Sunday night the big chances for it rested upon Rourke - his acceptance speech the night before at the Independent Spirit Awards was five minutes of wondrously ribald thank-yous and genial insults - and Jerry Lewis, the legendary, infamous clown, now 82, who would receive an honorary award. Would the long-ago star-director of imaginative, raucous comedies prance out and shout "Mel-vin!"? Would he, bearing in mind how he's been scorned by mainstream U.S. critics but revered in the pages of Cahiers du Cinema, give...
...sprinkled throughout the album. “Inland Sea” stands out for its ability to balance a laid-back rhythm with still complex instrumentation. Equipped with a bright introduction and a catchy chorus, the track “Fields of Coal” is proof that the spirit of straight-out rock is still with Trail of Dead. The album is rounded off by the folksy and acoustic “Luna Park.” The record as a whole works like the song “Iris Unveiled.” Trail of Dead brings...
...convinces him that they need a vacation, but then unexpectedly dies herself on the Baltic Coast. Initially unable to relinquish his grief, the aging Rudi travels to Japan carrying all his money and a suitcase of his wife’s clothing in an attempt to transport her spirit to the one country she had always longed to visit. Once in Tokyo, which takes the adage “the city that never sleeps” to a whole new level of disorienting proportions, Rudi ventures around his alien environment wearing his wife’s sweater and skirt...
...skyline, the Television Cultural Center, was consumed by fire just a few weeks ahead of its grand opening. Ironically, fireworks celebrating the end of the Chinese New Year were responsible for starting the blaze. In a sad spectacle rich with historical metaphors, it was as if the old Chinese spirit rebelled against the tyranny of the glass and metal skyscraper behemoths now being erected across China...
...Farrell's characters survive in spirit, too. Misfits like Webb still wander into Singapore, and though firms like Blackett's have ceded to local conglomerates, his penchant for order and profit can still be witnessed within today's business élite. With his gentle wit Farrell captures the soul of Singapore: a polyglot Asian port, still partly under the sleepy sway of its British colonial past, and still lurching toward an uncertain future with a furious, irresistible energy...