Word: woulds
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...messy story-telling and poor characterization in the film are aptly capped off by the worst instrumental soundtrack since Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet. One would expect at least a few traditional Irish folk songs, or instrumentals of a somewhat Irish tone; unfortunately, all we get is sweeping orchestral muck more suited for a huge epic than the simple story of one poor Irish family. Not surprising, considering the fact that John Williams, of Star Wars fame, was in charge of the score. Limerick is no Tatooine...
...friend who had mono once and he was sick for a whole year and lost 30 pounds. I row here, so it would mess me up for so long. One time a few months ago I drank out of a glass at a club and I didn't realize it wasn't mine. I was afraid for days I was going...
...Angela herself would have said, this is a "worthless feck" of a movie...
...kind of cheap inspiration imparted by this excerpt from the weakest section of The Cure at Troy is perfect for earnest and boring lightweights like Doubletake Magazine which takes the same quote as its mantra but one would really expect more substance from Gordimer, whose fiction breathes with implacable moral force...
...Unfortunately, there is very little in this compilation to rival "1959." Instead, there is a miasma of literary criticism and historical analysis: in both genres, Gordimer chooses summary over insight. In References: The Codes of Culture making fun of the title would be shooting fish in a barrel we come to the hardly surprising realization that There is no generic reader, out there; in Our Century, Gordimer is a long distance from shocking us with the information that The mushroom cloud still hangs over us, and the unbearably trite corollary question: will it be there as a bequest...