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...Scott Thomas's work on which the success of the picture depends and she does not fail it. Indeed, she gives a truly great performance. It's never easy for an actor to sustain our sympathy when a role is grounded in radical passivity. But she conveys in I've Loved You So Long's opening sequences a sense that her silences are willed attempts to protect herself from her own guilt at the crime - I don't think it spoils anything to identify it as a mercy killing - for which she has paid her debt. She is not quite...
...murderer come within spitting distance of the death penalty is a plot device that requires a longer buildup than just two seasons. Second, when the plot is failing, return to the writing. Witty and interesting dialogue was always a higlight of these shows, and it might be able to sustain them; maybe if the writers were more careful, they could make the protagonists seem less one-sided toward their demons.It’s painful to watch the shows I once loved die out. Now that the titular antiheroes of “Dexter?...
...making an effort to reform themselves, like Khodaydad. "If the coalition left I would quit," he says. "There is no way to fight with this leadership. We would have no food and no ammunition. We would have to be like the other commanders, driven to stealing in order to sustain ourselves. It would be better to stay at home." And Afghanistan would be the more dangerous...
...American Apparel to decide what it is, or the market will inevitably decide for it. Where it sits now, it is neither luxury nor low-end, and unless our financial crisis rapidly resolves itself, Am Ap will have to start leaning toward extremes in order to sustain the success to which it has grown accustomed. If it curbs its retail expansion and fully embraces high-end, it will lose a large portion of its consumer base but will gain larger support of wealthy individuals, who will still maintain their spending power despite the recession. If Charney decides to take...
...invented anything that actually worked). Etzler’s life and energies were spent striving to harness the earth’s natural forces—wind, current, sun, rotation—believing that if he did so he’d be able to create enough wealth to sustain more than a trillion people. Infinite wealth could be generated, he thought, by concentrating infinite power on the infinite resources of the earth. Unsurprisingly, his contraption—which was christened “The Satellite” but was little more than a glorified plow—failed...