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...REILLY: Conservation. It sounds trite, but it's clear the balance between supply and demand has become much tighter. Prices are higher, so there's an added incentive to be energy efficient. Make sure your automobile is properly serviced, and don't overaccelerate or overbrake. That can save 5% to 10%. At home, become more aware of thermostat and light settings...
...million more than Neverland. But Taylor Hackford’s film, despite Jamie Foxx’s soon-to-be-Oscar-winning performance, offers an easy way out. It mixes clichés of cultural nostalgia with the classic American tale of rags-to-riches. Comforting, perhaps, but somewhat trite in an age of wholesale corporate layoffs and a widening divide between bourgeois and blue-collar. If anything, the film offers a longing glimpse into a world we no longer possess: many have noted that in today’s record industry, Ray Charles would never have left the lounge...
...sees better with her heart than her eyes.” She inhabits a house in the backfields filled with oddities such as a massive tree decorated with whiskey bottles from her younger days. Her too-obvious name, describing her flyaway hair and mismatched rags, makes for another trite attempt at cleverness by the writers of a banal movie...
...sees better with her heart than her eyes.” She inhabits a house in the backfields filled with oddities such as a massive tree decorated with whiskey bottles from her younger days. Her too-obvious name, describing her flyaway hair and mismatched rags, makes for another trite attempt at cleverness by the writers of a banal movie...
...their titles: “The Legionnaire’s Lament,” “The Soldiering Life,” and “The Gymnast, High Above the Ground” all quickly prove that this isn’t a songwriter obsessed with any trite expression of young love. The band is set to drop their third full-length album, Picaresque, in March 2005, and all previewing copies have left excited reviewers in their wake: this band is on the rise. Set-lists from past shows have shown that Meloy is equally dipping into...