Word: latching
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Star quality, or startling beauty, can be an affront to the rest of us, stirring envy and rancor. That may be what drives Barbara (Judi Dench), a drab, old teacher at a London school, to latch and leech onto a new instructor, the stunning, vulnerable, morally floundering Sheba (Cate Blanchett). Sad meets bad--or is it mad?--in this knowing, brutal comedy. Dench has maybe her best-ever movie role: a queen bee who deals in the honey of treachery...
...hope of the staff of scaring the kids straight. The large number of these students implied a failure in America’s youth prevention programs. Despite naming schools after and erecting monuments for notable assassinated politicians, within some communities children don’t heed the warning and latch onto the glamorized image of politicians offered by television, movies, and especially video games. Real life encounters with actual politicians succeeds where state-mandated prevention programs of teaching civics and history in schools fail. Students leave knowing that government concentrations, debate teams, and The Washington Post aren?...
...success of low-scale Charlie Kaufman meta-films (“Adaptation” comes to mind throughout the movie), it was only a matter of time until someone tried to squeeze out a big-budget film like this. The film’s architects try too hard to latch onto an art-house fad that they don’t really understand, with results that feel forced. Periodically, for example, Harold’s wristwatch briefly becomes a character before disappearing again from the plot. This device does nothing to enhance the movie’s tone, and since...
...their field of study and education—maybe you’ll hear some great stories about their days of keggers and co-eds. If that goes well, you’re golden, and can probably feel free to delve into more personal areas. If they mention kids, latch on to that and run with it; no parent on earth can resist bragging about his or her progeny...
...suggesting that every progressive suddenly latch on to religious terminology. I am suggesting that perhaps if we progressives shed some of our own biases, we might recognize the values that both religious and secular people share when it comes to the moral and material direction of our country. We need to take faith seriously not simply to block the religious right but to engage all persons of faith in the larger project of American renewal...