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First, let's talk about the sex. There's a lot of it in Ang Lee's new film, Lust, Caution: sweaty, acrobatic coupling that is, by turns, brutish and tender. And the camera doesn't shy away from any panting detail. Explicit even by today's standards, the movie works hard to earn the adults-only NC-17 rating it has been given in the U.S. Shooting the scenes was so exhausting that Lee and his cast could only work half-days. On one occasion, lead actress Tang Wei fainted...
...convince themselves that fatherhood is all right--and the movie's happy ending is the least plausible thing about it. One show at least managed to capture the tension: What were those seven seasons of The Sopranos about if not a man fighting to reconcile the tender pangs of a caring, new-style father with the old-school masculine ideals of violence and stoicism--not to mention the psychological damage wreaked on him by his own old-school father...
...harbor while visiting such places as Monaco. Then again, staying aboard can be appealing. Many yachts are outfitted with gyms, pools and movie theaters. Feel free to invite friends, as most sleep 12. Guests on the 153-ft. (47 m) Argyll can use its 24-ft. (7 m) tender or kayaks to explore the coast in places like the Exumas in the Bahamas. "If you put your hand out, a drink will be in it," says Jill Bobrow, editor of Showboats International...
...instantly recognizable, aesthetically unobjectionable, and easily digestible for the casual viewer. Likewise, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) put on a show of Edward Hopper paintings this summer. Hopper is one of the most beloved American painters—probably for his austere but tender portraits of archetypical American life—and his work lends itself more to speculation than to analysis (“Just what is that woman in the red dress doing at that diner so late at night?”). I don’t mean to say that these works...
...acutely aware of the discrepancy between her inner state and her public demeanor. "The smile," she writes, is "a mask" or "a cloak that covers everything." Similarly, she wonders whether she is engaged in verbal deception. "I spoke as if my very heart was in love with God - tender, personal love," she remarks to an adviser. "If you were [there], you would have said, 'What hypocrisy.'" Says the Rev. James Martin, an editor at the Jesuit magazine America and the author of My Life with the Saints, a book that dealt with far briefer reports in 2003 of Teresa...