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Last week, in little towns like Exeter, North Hampton and Pembroke, you found even Democrats applauding McCain's goofy wit, sobering war stories and passionate homilies on money as the root of all evil in Washington. And you found people who don't even agree with his conservative positions on issues like abortion or gun control festooned with McCain buttons...
...wasn't that I was upset about annoying the woman. I wasn't exactly mowing her down with my bicycle, so I don't think I was causing any harm. It was more the encounter itself. I like to think I possess at least some shred of clever, subtle wit in my marrow, and, "You're stupid," while displaying elegance in brevity, is not exactly a riposte worthy of Oscar Wilde...
Judas lurched around, thinking the voice was too familiar. But the face was indescribably changed; Jesus' old fire and wit were gone. This man looked not remotely childish but utterly new, just born at sunrise, this April Sunday. So Judas said, "All the help I need--thanks anyhow--would be for you to leave...
Penn does bold justice to this lowdown giant. But Samantha Morton, as Emmet's "mute orphan half-wit" of a girlfriend, is the sweet revelation. Rarely has a performer mined such complex and potent emotion from such simple materials: a smile, a shrug, an attentive winsomeness. She hardly nods or shakes her head in response to a question, yet always conveys the meaning and feeling. In an age of actors' tics and rantings, such austere clarity is worth cherishing. The interpretive magic that Emmet Ray achieves with six strings, Morton conjures with none...
...transition and departure. In an almost music-video-like sequence, a distraught Manuela peruses the local transvestite meat market. She does not find Lola, but she does come upon La Agrado (Antonia San Juan), or the agreeable one, Manuela's transsexual friend. La Agrado is the movie's ironic wit, garnering lines such as a full list of surgery she has undergone to look like an authentic woman: "almond shaped eyes, 80,000, silicone in lips, forehead, cheeks, and ass--the liter costs 60,000 pesetas; you add it up, because I stopped counting. Tits? Two. I'm no monster...