Word: touchings
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...those who've seen Infernal Affairs, the Scorsese movie will be an expert variation, without the wallop of the original. That's what usually keeps remakes from entering the Pantheon. But this one works on its own by allowing the director to touch on one of his favorite themes: the vectors of power and threat in male relationships, which here is complicated by the fact that the two main guys, whose mission is to find the other, don't meet until near the end of the movie...
...rise and on the make, with a practiced smile that can impress the cops and please the ladies. When he meets Madolyn, the shrink, he suavely spouts this apercu: "Freud said the Irish were the only people who were impervious to psychoanalysis." (The "impervious" is a lovely touch - it tells you Colin has rehearsed this line in his head - as is the oenophile's smoothness with which Damon spits out that mouthful of words.) The lies he has to tell to be successful in his job are so much a part of him, he might have ceased fretting about them...
...What we witness here are young children, not yet in touch with their own sexuality, being turned into anti-abortion fanatics, carrying little model fetuses around in their hands and weeping over the unborn souls. Which says nothing of Fisher's conviction that her Jesus Camp is an anodyne for similar institutions in the Muslim world where, she believes, children are being trained as suicide bombers...
...illustrate how cellular phones create both order and disorder in our society. "All man-made devices can be used for good and for bad," says Baker, who has been nominated for both a Pulitzer Prize and a Grammy. He adds that while cell phones are great for keeping in touch and getting help in emergencies, they're also very disruptive. The orchestra will alternate between using the cell phones melodiously and as interrupting, annoying rings...
...less then ten minutes into the album, when West’s unheralded guest and fellow Chicagoan Lupe Fiasco puts Louis Vuitton’s top spokesman to shame. Fiasco’s not really a power hitter; he’s more about finesse. On “Touch the Sky,” he confidently spits double-entendres, references “Thundercats,” and successfully imitates Cam’ron’s homophonic flow, all in the matchbook-sized verse he rents from West. It’s no wonder that Fiasco only gets...