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...young woman called Poppy, played just this side of annoying, but often entrancingly, by Sally Hawkins. Some of the early reviewers have convinced themselves that Mike Leigh's movie is a lightsome romp, a tribute to keeping your spirits up in the noisome atmosphere of lower middle-class London, where Poppy works as a primary school teacher...
Then there's the matter of her flamenco teacher. Poppy has been lured into the class by one of her female friends. For her, it's a way of filling an idle evening and getting a little exercise. For the teacher - played with arresting fire by Karina Fernandez - flamenco is life itself, a way of staking out and defending feminist territory. Her passion for the dance is obviously fueled by an unhappy love affair, the emotional details of which pour forth in the course of her instruction. Fernandez has only two scenes, but they are as potent...
...buyer what the hidden flaw is," he explains. Not only that: "the disclosure has to be made so that a 'reasonable,' or average man can decide" whether to buy. Once again, almost the entire chain of transactors in the mortgage crisis is guilty: predatory brokers for not alerting working-class borrowers to the fine print; middle-men selling mortgage debt to investment banks sliced and diced into "tranches" that obscure their riskiness; bankers who used hard-to-fathom financial instruments that leave ultimate responsibility for a loan a mystery even to experts. Like many observers, Levine is particularly exercized about...
...just these distinctions. As a guest at Harvard this past Monday, Previn shared personal insights about music as well as anecdotes and advice with the community in an intimate setting.A crowd of approximately 80 people gathered in the Kirkland Junior Common Room for a master class with Previn as part of the Learning From Performers series sponsored by the Office for the Arts. At the conclusion of the master class, Previn, making his first visit to Harvard in 26 years, was presented with the second annual Musician of the Year Award by the Harvard Music Society of Kirkland. The event...
...Sports” does not command an aisle all its own at the movie store. Nevertheless, the sports film constitutes a distinctive genre complete with all the requisite conventions and clichés. “The Express” is a fine exemplar of this class of movies—not for its quality, but for its representativeness. Director Gary Fleder and writer Charles Leavitt rehash, but do not reinvigorate, a set of generic devices that will be familiar to almost any viewer who has taken in a sports film in the last 30 years. For better or worse?...