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...Both educational and entertaining, Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis' "Suspended in Language" stands out as a comic that smartly uses its medium as part of its message. Generating as many philosophical questions as physics answers, it embodies the spirit of Bohr's life and ideas: It changes depending on how you look...
...increase the amount of money given to the council every year, they expected to get more, with no sacrifices. Trying to cap HoCo funding at a level that wouldn’t allow all HoCos to continue operating happily to compensate for mismanaged CLC spending is plainly against the spirit of the fee increase. We hope the council learns to manage its new wealth soon so it can fulfill the wilting promise of the termbill fee hike...
Under the initial legislation, each House can claim up to $1,500 in a variety of specific ways: stein clubs; casual parties hosted in common House space; funds for house social life or spirit, such as movie screenings, barbeques and IM T-shirts; and capital improvements...
...when a patient of hers nearly dies after submitting to her "procedure" and she finds herself in the law's clutches. It is as gentle as it can be, considering her saintly demeanor. But it is also implacable in its need to punish her--indeed, to crush her spirit...
...writer-director Mike Leigh's Vera Drake is just such a film. He's famously a realist (Life Is Sweet, Naked, Secrets & Lies) and never more so than in this film. He simply recounts the story with unblinking objectivity. The almost comic cluelessness of Vera's family, the phlegmatic spirit of the policemen processing her case, the attitudes of her patients, ranging from the hysterical to the cool--they are all there. Yet there's nothing forced or movieish in Leigh's treatment...