Word: warmness
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...Especially when Jacob Black arrives on the scene to distract her from her melancholy. Where Pattinson's Edward is cold, bloodless and trapped in his head, Taylor Lautner's Jacob is warm, tawny, genial and able to get Kristen Stewart's shrink-wrapped Bella to stretch out and relax a little onscreen. It's as though the sun can come back out once Edward leaves; there are genuinely funny moments in their scenes together, not to mention sexual tension. Expect an eruption in the theater during the scene in which a thrill-seeking Bella wrecks the motorcycle Jacob rebuilt...
...like to be heard, and it is of enormous credit to Gabourey Sidibe - an unknown actress making her screen debut - that we feel an obligation to catch every confusing piece of dialect or distorted sentence out of Precious' mouth. Sidibe speaks in a soft mutter - not always intelligible but warm and highly addictive. The story is set in 1987, in Harlem, and in the movie's first minutes, Precious - having been held back many times before - is in a junior high math class, projecting a blank hostility to the world. Only her voice invites us in: "I like math...
...supporting roles, the warm baritone of Robert A. Knoll ’13 lends humanity to the lonely vicar Dr. Daly. The mother-daughter pair of Mrs. Parlet (Amrita S. Dani ’13) and Constance (Megan M. Savage ’10), two excessively emotional villagers, also give solid comic turns. And when the entire ensemble appears together in the finales to both acts, the performers’ shared delight in the music creates a wonderful, tangible energy...
...prostitutes interviewed said they had to pay hustlers on the streets. "I don't work for pimps. I don't work for madams. And I am not going to work for the government," says Jennifer, a heavily made-up 24-year-old pacing in place to keep warm in the evening chill. "This is my business to provide for my family. And I want it to stay that...
Like many students on campus, the Harvard sailing team is realizing just how quickly the end of the semester is approaching with this year’s new calendar system in place. However, just as yesterday’s clear skies and warm weather provided students with a respite before winter weather and finals season, the Crimson competed in its one and only weekend of fall team racing before next weekend’s fleet-style Atlantic Coast Championships...