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...does not toy with the viewer’s emotions; rather he demands that the audience be repulsed, distressed, and deeply moved.After these visceral shocks, McQueen moves in the film’s second part to a lengthy conversation between Sands and his longtime friend, Father Lohan (Liam Cunningham, “The Wind That Shakes the Barley”). Here, as in the rest of the film, McQueen withholds no information from his audience, instead using Lohan to clarify the straightforward events of the plot. Sands’ death is inevitable; there are no plot twists or surprises...
...Staff writer Emily W. Cunningham can be reached at ecunning@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Emily W. Cunningham can be reached at ecunning@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Emily W. Cunningham can be reached at ecunning@fas.harvard.edu...
...true, as McCain pointed out during his unsuccessful effort to delete all the earmarks in the spending bill, that earmark abuses have landed politicians like former Republican congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham in prison. Those abuses were especially rampant when congressmen were permitted to slip earmarks into legislation without taking responsibility - non-earmarked earmarks, in a way - but Obama helped spearhead an effort to eliminate that practice after Democrats took back Congress. It is also true that earmarks can be a sneaky way for boondoggles to bypass hearings, public comment periods, cost-benefit analyses and other forms of scrutiny...