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...literally” has come to mean just the opposite; it suggests exaggeration, intensity, and insistence. Perhaps this formerly literary term is thus doomed to the ranks of “seriously?? or “really,” words that once signified sincerity and now point only to emphasis: “Seriously. I’m going to live in Lamont café. It’s really the best thing ever.” (Overheard in the smoothie line at the Greenhouse...
...less-than-subtle move, Shyamalan adds a film critic to the cast of characters, all but shattering the fourth wall from the movie’s outset. But when the Lady asks Shyamalan’s character to do nothing short of—seriously??saving the world, ignoring the director’s metatextual presence is a lost cause. Even off-screen, he is visibly descriptive with his camera work, framing original point-of-view shots and probing angles that sustain the film’s suspense...
...classmates took themselves very seriously??“They were all determined to be famous people,” he says...
...wish we could just go to some consulting firm that would work with us to give our schools an image makeover,” he says. “But what we can do to help build support is to make parents feel like their concerns are being taken seriously??there are issues with bullying and intimidation that are not being addressed—and get them involved early through partnership programs...
...just wanted to write an Irving Berlin-esque musical comedy about the Gospels, complete with song titles like “Everything’s Coming Up Moses.”The Crimson, in its review of the show, advised those who “still take their Eucharist seriously?? to avoid the show, at all costs.“It was very lighthearted but took…a purposely literal-minded, child’s viewpoint of the Gospels,” he explains.“The Greatest Musical” was far from the last...