Word: greengrass
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...many enemies, led by Joan Allen and Brian Cox - she?s efficient and chilly, he?s passionate and scary - remain convinced he has a hidden agenda that somehow threatens Western Civilization As We Know It. We, of course, are just along for the ride, which, as director Paul Greengrass conducts it, consists of a succession of chases in cars and on foot, punctuated by large numbers of sudden deaths...
...lingering shot, for Greengrass, is about two seconds long, and though that style keeps the viscera pinging, the underwhelmed mind eventually starts wandering. It is never allowed to settle sympathetically on Jason?s lack-of-identity crisis. And frankly, it never quite recovers from a critical event (which we won?t detail here) in its first 20 minutes, which deprives the movie of some of its foundation. The Bourne Identity was more grounded in some sort of felt reality. Jason might not have remembered exactly who he was, but he was consistently reminded, and so were we, of what...
...Casablanca, Lucie's club, is no longer listed on the directory of the narrow, six-story building just off Roppongi's main drag. In an effort to erase their club's history, management has changed its name to Greengrass. Everything else is the same. Customers are still greeted when they enter the joint by a maître d' in an ill-fitting tuxedo. The lounge area is still dark. The black leather modular couches are still so mushy that customers and hostesses almost collapse into each other when they sit down. There are a dozen small tables, each just...
...they move with exaggerated stiffness but their eyes flit eagerly when a new prospect enters the club. Soon, each of the young women is sitting next to a total stranger. They hand out their business cards. They know about Lucie, but that's history. Last week, two girls at Greengrass were sacked because they didn't meet their dohan quotas...
...contrast to his city streets, the greengrass of Austin's Dunster House seems like asummer home. Austin says he nearly choked when,during his first year at Harvard, a proctor warnedhis new entryway to be careful of CambridgeCommons at night...