Word: cheapness
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...sticks to the ribs. Some blame goes to the actors (as Dawn, the female cop, Heather Burns has no street cred at all) and to Mark Brokaw's direction, which is too broad. But the fault lies mostly with Lonergan, who betrays his much vaunted realism with contrivance and cheap laughs at every turn. Example: Jeff, the cutely self-aware nincompoop, doesn't want to betray his boss's confidence, so he tells the whole story to Dawn by disguising it, ineptly, as a "hypothetical" case, a ruse she sees through in about five seconds. Pure sitcom schtick - like...
...this film is not original in any way, and will probably not go down in history with the likes of The Bridge on the River Kwai or Saving Private Ryan. In some ways, Enemy at the Gates takes some very American easy ways out. Killing innocent children is a cheap way to evoke pity and fear,and the way some of the characters speak out against communism, you would think the Cold War was still going on: The film can not be complete until Danilov has realized the flaws of his Marxist ideology. The film does not glorify the Russians...
...real reason Martha came to Harvard is to show women that you can have it all, and cheap too. But by concealing her large staff who work behind the scenes, Martha also conceals that fact that you can't have it all alone. Now, as ever, women need men's help to create the perfect (one of Martha's favorite words) house and home...
...Increasingly, colleges and universities--and Harvard isn't among them--are cost-cutting but essentially exploiting cheap academic labor that they don't have to pay real salaries or benefits to," he says...
Yale had been riding a surge of momentum that began with some cheap shots by Lee Jelenic and ended with its captain, Ben Stafford, giving the Bulldogs a 4-3 lead at 4:02 of the third period. Saturday's game and perhaps Harvard's first trip to Lake Placid in three years began to look in serious jeopardy...