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Eventually, Dalgliesh emerges victorious, but that certainly isn't a surprise. Nor is it irritating--Dalgliesh is an impressive protagonist in that he doesn't always seem invincible. Hercule poirot and Miss Marple in Christie novels always seemed to transcend the material--solving mysteries was just as nonchalant an activity as having tea every afternoon. Dalgliesh is more caught up in the twists and turns of the story; like the reader, he doesn't have things figured out until the very end. Often, mystery authors cheat by holding back key pieces of evidence and leaving the audience in the dark...
There was his overwhelming performance in Aladdin that simply blew every other character off the screen. Such scene-stealing was no less extraordinary in Mrs. Doubtfire and the under-rated Toys. Williams' comedic range has no inherent limits. Over the years, he's shown the remarkable ability to simply transcend his past efforts...
Benfey often dives so deep into such detail that the reappearance of Degas is a jolt: Degas, again? The cogent explanations of Degas' paintings interspersed through the text transcend this discontinuity. New Criticism be damned, Benfey glories in tying the fiction of Cable and Chopin and the art of Degas to their personal lives. Whether connecting Degas' cousins to various figures in his paintings or noting how Degas' artistic preoccupation with the unfamiliar presence of African-Americans seeped into his work, Benfey perceptively joins life...
...songs like "Seems So" is terrific. "We'll Come to Be," one of the standout tracks on the album, will have your head bopping in the proper Liverpudlian fashion. Head Apple Robert Schneider makes writing classic '60s pop songs sound effortless--he writes songs that, like the Beatles' best, transcend their short length and pull you into the music. Many of these tracks will stay in your head, leaving you humming the chorus on your way to class, annoying passers-by. So what's the problem? The problem is that there is no problem: Tone Soul Evolution is a fine...
...brief moment, we realize the potential of Anastasia and animated features to transcend the boundaries of reality and create an inspiring emotional fantasy--something we haven't seen in a while. As an audience, we don't particularly care which company provides such powerful entertainment. But Fox here has proven its mettle, giving characters we can empathize with in a fantasy where we do more than just chuckle at some genie's pop references...