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...walk till dawn, write extravagant poetry and self-revealing e-mails, cross continents or oceans to hug for just a weekend, change jobs or lifestyles, even die for one another. Drenched in chemicals that bestow focus, stamina and vigor, and driven by the motivating engine of the brain, lovers succumb to a Herculean courting urge...
...easy to stand back and wax ironic about The Last Samurai. But it's not all that difficult to succumb to its full-spirited romanticism either. The director, Edward Zwick, whose Glory is one of the rare, recent triumphs among grand historical tales, has obviously studied his Kurosawa. Working on the script with Marshall Herskovitz and John Logan, Zwick brings the master's concentrated fury to his depictions of hand-to-hand combat; a certain raw, muddy brutality to Cruise's training for those moments; and both epic sweep and powerful detail to the big battles. By way of contrast...
...that ghosts should be endemic to a life as haunted as Tan's. Besides the deaths of her father and brother, she writes of losing a best friend in a violent murder, a beloved editor to swift cancer and, in the moving essay Last Week, of watching her mother succumb to Alzheimer's disease...
...Yeah, I just don’t know if I’d succumb to all the greasy fast-lane stuff they make you do. Actually, no, some of those girls are scheming and sneaky. You know, if you get me a single date out of this article I’ll be happy...
...Buffaloes were not about to succumb to the underdog without a fight, though, and cut the Crimson lead to three shortly before halftime...