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...dialogue, by scripters Brian Koppelman and David Levien, aims for smart and hits smarmy; and the actors' delivery of their lines, meant to show a relaxed wit, is perfunctory verging on read-through. With one exception. Gould, evoking the old-time Vegas when he learns how rotten Pacino is: "You and I both shook Sinatra's hand, and there's a code among the guys who shook Sinatra's hand." Pacino: "Screw Sinatra's hand...
...Working with co-director Vincent Paronnaud (the celebrated comix artist known as Winshluss), Satrapi finds a simple, supple, almost monochrome visual style that allows the heroine's distinct voice and raucous wit. Even when the story turns from Iranian political melodrama into more familiar coming-of-age territory, Persepolis never loses its momentum, its sustaining sense of fun or its rapturous hold on the viewer...
...world, yet by that standard of wealth, Harvard is hopelessly poor. Harvard undergraduates must subsist on what they can get over the airwaves or herd into common rooms to watch their favorite shows—or fight with others who are watching something else. But thanks to the entrepreneurial wit and creative zeal of a few students, modernity is politely knocking on our doors. Technological and legal issues have been resolved by this small group of dedicated students and satellite television could soon be accessible in upperclassmen houses through electrical wires. For $25 to $35 per month, Harvard students could...
...composer's fecundity, tireless ambition and quite modern need to make a living when the traditional patronage system was beginning to falter. "Genius leaks out the around the edges," says the conductor Roger Norrington, "while he's doing something totally practical." In other words there is a serenity, a wit, an economy in this work that belies the haste and occasional desperation of its composition...
...Lebanon, and to seek justice for those behind Hariri's murder. And despite the major setback he suffered in 2004 when French voters rejected the European Union constitution he supported, Chirac's strong pro-European positions made him a vital partner for German leaders seeking to push ahead wit h EU expansion and consolidation. In stark contrast to Sarkozy and many other conservative European leaders, meanwhile, Chirac has continued to back Turkey's eventual entry to the EU as reward for its dedication to secularism and democracy - and to prevent it from recoiling into fundamentalism should it be rejected...