Word: transcender
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...done in Hollywood since 1930, and yes, the characters look almost like us, and yes, we obviously do it better, but it is also to say that, unless you have an awful lot to prove when you go to see this movie, you'll notice that it manages to transcend its premise and do ten times more than any of its Hollywood antecedents. And remember: We don't treat French movies like this...
...eminent man says: "Oftentimes, as I sit here, I don't seem to grasp that I am President." The statement is too good not to be true. In fact, the entire Harding Administration is a humorist's despair; at a certain point, venality and incompetence simply transcend parody. Historian Charles L. Mee Jr. understands this. His brisk, hilarious retelling of the Harding saga resembles a series of blackout sketches. Facts are trotted out quickly, to speak and bray for themselves...
...this exhibition shows us what we did not know. It brings forth not the debased Rodin of popular culture, or Rodin the herald of a modernism he did not live to see, but the actual artist, embedded in the 19th century, soaked in its values and yet struggling to transcend and alter them. It also clarifies, as never before, the taxing issue of what makes a Rodin "original." He did not work like a modern artist. He seldom carved his own marbles, never cast his bronzes, and turned his models over to assistants so that they could be done...
...going to meet a man I couldn't be sure even existed." But about a month later, having grappled with the probable loneliness of the job--she may not be able even to visit home for a year--and the probable frustration of doing what she knows won't transcend "band-aid work," she decided to take the job. "It was the kind of thing I never could have forgiven myself if I didn't accept...
...then I stumbled upon the epic to end all epics, the terror to transcend all terrors--Happy Birthday to Me! was its name. "Find out the disgusting ways six snobbish high school classmates die." I studied the poster. A screaming student is pinned into the upper left-hand corner by a dominant shish-ke-bab. The top line of the poster reads. "Find out why Richard never ate shish-ke-bab again!" I don't care if this is parody. This is beyond human. I cringed picturing the meat popping out the back of his neck. But the worse...