Word: beyondness
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...film’s high points, such as its promising plotline and noteworthy visuals, are outweighed by the flimsiness of the principal characters. Like the land, the characters, and even the cows, “Terribly Happy” seems hopelessly mired, though in mediocrity rather than mud. Beyond the merits of a harrowing depiction of life in the Danish countryside, this merely passable film fails to achieve its full potential...
...this latest obsession with a heretofore irrelevant and obscure White House staff position—the White House social secretary—is simply product of another vice: the delusion harbored by Washington media types that the trifling goings-on of their city matter to those who live beyond the Beltway. This media elite is easily distracted by bright, shiny objects, and the fact that anyone outside the White House has ever heard of Desiree Rogers is an indictment of the media’s skewed priorities...
Reed perfected her coordination as a jumper, but managing school and sports was a whole other balancing act. Beyond doing track and traveling internationally for jump rope, she was president of her high school class and an accomplished student...
...Chemistry with my fellow jumpers was really key, as far as collaborating routines went,” Reed notes. “That’s certainly carried over for me on the track and even beyond...
...Harold Kushner among them—all suddenly seizing the coattails of this rather obscure rabbi now six decades deceased, and adorning “The Prophet’s Wife” with glowing blurbs, introductions and even back-of-the-book commentaries. If there is a lesson beyond the theological to be derived from “The Prophet’s Wife,” it is that this is a genre worth reviving. Steinberg never finished his book, but its publication reopens the door for others to write their own entries in his renewed tradition...