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...female characters—God forbid we lose some of the shots of scenery and endless montages of vineyards to make room for character development. So little time is devoted to his female characters that Payne is forced to use the cheap tactic of writing Maya a soliloquy about “the life of wines” in order to give her supposed spiritual depth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Reviews | 10/29/2004 | See Source »

...mate. Rhymes with screw and you.) The performance gets wetter: tears on his cheek, snot peeking out of his nostrils, spume on his lips whenever he pronounces a word beginning with ?p? - and there are lots of them in the soliloquy. Whishaw continues in his mewling way for the extent of the production?s three hours and 40 minutes. But he lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: London Bridges the World | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

...make such bankable fare as In the Line of Fire, Air Force One and The Perfect Storm. But his condition is chronic, and its occurrences are memorable. "You know, I am amazed a bit by the proportion of Brad Pitt's pectoral muscles," he says, and gives a 10minute soliloquy on Pitt's physique. Petersen also muses at length on the importance of having soup at 11 a.m., the merits of eating at the same restaurant every night while shooting and his belief that Peter O'Toole secretly craves advice on acting. "I nudge him," says Petersen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Troy Story | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

Those are just a few favorite examples, but the correspondences continue. With a little punctuation and some conjunctions, one high school’s AP review list of allusions and terms turns into a weird poem on current events: “A dramatic monologue: a soliloquy. Subjectivity, objectivity, and euphemism. Conceit: hyperbole. Inversion and irony… the tragic flaw. Protagonist or antihero? Point of view! Epic elements, oxymoronic furies, paradoxical fates. Icarus and Daedalus, or Tantalus and Sisyphus? Or Pandora...

Author: By Peter P.M. Buttigieg, | Title: Parts of Speech | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

...cultures can converse. Can there be reconciliation on stage? That was the subject of the symposium, which brought together indigenous leaders such as academic Marcia Langton, Senator Aden Ridgeway and filmmaker Rachel Perkins. Perhaps the pithiest comments came from curator Djon Mundine, who spoke of Aboriginal arts as a soliloquy cast into a silent void. "We keep giving it to you people," he told a largely white audience. "We want something to come back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Leaps and Bounds | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

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