Word: vibes
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...movies; it was a genre that allowed them to show their skills of cinematic technique and audience manipulation (get 'em to scream). But with Apatovian buddy farce currently triumphant, more tyros are turning to R-rated comedy (get 'em to laugh). Here timing, not technique, is required: creating a vibe, working with actors, building a scene, knowing the audience. It's less like movie auteuring than like staging a play, but that's all right. Every film comedy needs a director, and these days there's a slew of comedies. It's one job market that's always hiring...
...other wide release, Adventureland, just plain tanked. It finished a sad sixth. Fewer than a million patrons paid to see Superbad director Greg Mottola's reminiscence of an '80s summer he spent working in an amusement park. Apparently most of those who wanted a reverberation of their Superbad vibe stayed home and watched star Seth Rogen, who ubiquitously promoted his next-week's movie, Observe and Report, on Letterman, The Daily Show, Saturday Night Live and quite possibly the Home Shopping Network...
...midtempo ambling New Wave guitar and echoed bass drum, sounds like an early U2 track, and the vocal and lyrical style and African-inflected bass of “Living Thing” directly channels Vampire Weekend’s watered-down “Graceland” vibe. As already established by Mr. West, “Nothing to Worry About” is an elation, a nearly perfectly-constructed hip-hop influenced indie-pop dance song with a nonsensical yet addicting chorus. “Lay it Down” marks the other high point of the record...
...rich, vibrant, engaging” community of undergraduates and graduate tutors was an added incentive.But when it came down to making the decision, Sullivan says he simply felt it was right.“It’s hard to give voice and vocabulary to it. It was a vibe. It felt comfortable,” he said. “I felt like it would be the perfect place for myself and my family.”—Staff writer Bita M. Assad can be reached at bassad@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Ahmed N. Mabruk...
...distinct vibe emanates from behind the 15-ft.-high chain fences reinforced with rebar and rimmed by razor wire that encircle the so-called "Waterfront" compound at Camp Bucca. It's different from the other compounds in this sprawling 100-acre, open-air U.S detention center close to the Kuwaiti border, the largest in Iraq, which houses a little over 10,000 of the 13,832 detainees currently in U.S custody. In other compounds hundreds of detainees mingle in expansive recreation yards, enjoy access to books, television and chess sets, and aren't locked in at night. There is noise...