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...Even on the page, the siren-sucker relationship is a lot livelier than in Truffaut?s frozen ?Mermaid.? Which, by the way, never gets to Mississippi, or even to North America. The first setting is Reunion Island, in the Indian Ocean; then Louis follows Julie to Marseille, and they finish in the snow of Switzerland. The movie?s emotional trajectory is also from hot to cold, earth tones to glacial whites. For a man obsessed, Belmondo plays it low-voltage; Deneuve is only the most gorgeous paperweight. The film has no heat, only humidity, and that in the early going...
...shouldn't have worried. Kirk delivers a performance that manages to be witty and self-assured as well as physically wrecked by the disease and emotionally sucker-punched by the Angel who has selected him to be her prophet. While Prior's situation is pitiable, Kirk never plays for easy sentiment...
...bills more than six months overdue are ever repaid and that recovery is costly in any case."If you lend $20,000 to someone, you can spend the same amount to get it back," says Brendan Carr, an American lawyer with Aurora Law Offices in Seoul. "It's a sucker's game...
...play didn’t emerge every time, but what Dartmouth was able to produce was more than enough to put Harvard to shame. Sometimes it was a sucker-punch of a reception, sometimes it was a where-did-that-hole-come-from...
...decorations that are beginning to disfigure suburbia and who, together, have turned an innocent night of excitement for children into something run by and for adults. Those in the Halloween industry are simply behaving as good capitalists should, following the maxim of that great economist P.T. Barnum that a sucker is born every minute, satisfying a market they have themselves created. Halloween Express, a Kentucky-based chain, now has some 70 franchised stores in 21 states. Americans will spend about $6.9 billion on Halloween this year$2 billion on candy alone, an extra $1.5 billion on costumes and much...