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...scenery is meant to be savored by the viewers, not chewed by the actors. Much of the action in a western is in what would be downtime in any other genre. The pause before a man speaks suggests the world of options available to someone facing an armed varmint in a desolate space. The tensest scene in any western - two men staring each other down before the final shoot-out - is, in modern movie terms, a moment when nothing happens...
...feisty attitude that the McCain campaign has shown lately. He recently criticized fellow G.O.P. candidate Mitt Romney for his wavering views on immigration, mocking the former governor's spotty gun rights record as well as accusations that he's employed illegal immigrants: "Maybe he can get out his small varmint gun and drive those Guatemalans off his yard," McCain said. More recently, an anonymous McCain staffer concluded a dueling series of press releases about the Iraq spending bill by taking a swipe at Democratic candidate Barack Obama's inexperience: "Obama wouldn't know the difference between...
...been the small-arms shot heard 'round the blogosphere: John McCain popping off on a conference call about Mitt Romney's opposition to the current immigration bill. "Maybe I should wait a couple weeks and see if it changes," the Senator said. "Maybe he can get out his small varmint gun and drive those Guatemalans off his yard...
...cannot brush off McCain's "small varmint gun" quip as entirely lacking substance. If anything, it's a model of political economy: There's the obvious reference to Romney's now-notorious "evolving" opinions (on gay rights, on abortion, on immigration), there's the more obscure dig at Romney's comic explanation for his spotty hunting record (the "lifelong hunter" has been on two hunts - "for small varmints, if you will"). And there's the for-junkies-only joke, resurrecting a six-month-old charge that Romney's landscaping company employed illegal immigrants from Guatemala. As an added bonus...
...action movie." On that count, and for most of the film, No Country delivers, with suspense scenes as taut as they are acutely observed. Moss spends most of his sorry time being chased and shot at: as he tries to ford a river pursued by a varmint posse and a killer dog, or jumping out a second-story hotel window with some of Chigurh's ammo in his gut. Joining the chase, of both Moss and Chigurh, are the venerable, philosophizing Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) and a wise-ass DEA headhunter (Woody Harrelson). And every bit of this...