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...summer house porch: “Wait, wait, wait.” Each would explain in initially self-righteous tones and subsequently half-veiled pleas that a woman just doesn’t know herself till she’s 30. They’d raise their voices and stare us down, one hand clutching a cocktail, the other at the hip, pointing out exactly how much we’ve all changed since elementary school—proof enough that when it comes to tying the knot, a modern woman should wait, wait, wait...
Jeff shakes my hand and asks about my experiences with Scientology in a lilting voice. He has large, lidded eyes that stare for uncomfortably long. Allen expresses a degree of incredulousness about the religion right off the bat; he asks about a story gleefully popular on anti-Scientology sites on internet, that Hubbard believed that an intergalactic ruler named Xenu banished human spirits to earth 75 million years ago. Jeff dismisses the story outright and addresses the question by introducing a central tenet of the religion: it’s not true unless it’s true...
...teammates, some married and most in their late twenties, have never even heard of him, and they laugh at me as I stare and chatter ceaselessly. They fail to understand how the sight of such an obscure, washed-up player could make me so excited...
...spectacle of legislators—most non-lawyers—using legalese in monologues unconvincingly replete with phrases like “jurisdiction stripping,” “qui tam” statues, and the massive euphemism for the abortion debate, “stare decisis”—the Latin term for letting existing precedents stand. We realize the good intentions of legislators, but please spare us. For a lawyer who routinely argues before the Supreme Court, questions of amateurs are easily deflectable. Such an imperfect method shall yield nothing the nominee chooses...
...smaller--and inside. His onscreen speech is a mix of concealments and confidences, of whispers in a cave or under the covers. And he's not speaking softly just so you will be startled when he explodes. In a crucial scene he's less likely to shout than to stare or slouch--or sob, as he does, quietly but with naked intensity, in The Constant Gardener. It's his way of inhabiting all sides of someone like Justin. "I love it," he says, "when a film shows a character roundabout and through and through. A man may have wonderful qualities...