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...love. "The Lord did a work in us," Caleb's father explains, of how he turned around his own struggling marriage. In case that's too subtle an endorsement of the great marriage counselor in the sky, the father-son conversation takes place in a field beside a giant wooden cross. If the scene works for audiences, it's because everyone involved - the director, Cameron, the rest of the cast, even the church ladies who served the tuna casserole at the craft services table - sincerely believes it. "Marriage has been attacked and watered down and called a piece of paper...
...called “Book From the Sky” or “Book From Heaven.” In one of the first examples of installation art in China, Xu created volumes of scrolls containing approximately 4,000 invented Chinese characters, which were then hand-cut onto wooden print blocks. Each character appears to the viewer as if a real word, with Chinese visitors to the installation noting that their first impression of the project was that many of the characters were simply written incorrectly...
Kohler: - the reality is probably something much more different. People thought they had hours when they literally had minutes. It came down to making a decision. Do you get off the big steel ship and climb into the little wooden lifeboat hanging over the side five stories up off the water. Or do you take your chances and stay...
...reduce the number of checkpoints," he says. "Do you want the Iraqi security forces and the Sahwa (SOIs) to remain on the streets 24 hours a day?" he asks Sheikh al-A'ghayde, who has stopped at an unusually sturdy-looking SOI checkpoint. Most are little more than flimsy wooden shacks reinforced with a few sheets of corrugated iron and propped up with several sandbags...
...emotionally present performance that seems to exist almost in spite of the film’s oppressive post-ironic atmosphere. On the other hand, Macdonald—who emerges early on as Victor’s “honest” love interest—is effectively wooden and dream-girl-by-the-numbers, though not without the afforded Palanhiuk twist that may or may not redeem her inadequacies.Fans of David Fincher’s adaptation of the author’s first novel, 1999’s “Fight Club” must take note...