Word: endingly
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...end, the movie has gone goofily gothic--more Wes Craven than Truman Capote--and you may be convinced that director Raimi meant The Gift to be a deadpan postmodernist horror comedy. The sole evidence to the contrary is Blanchett's performance: persuasive, subtle, impeccable. She seems the only guardian of sanity in this good-old-boy Bellevue...
...INVESTMENTS This is a bad time to dump stocks, which are already priced for a severe slowdown. They will fall further if a recession occurs. But if growth accelerates at the end of next year, as many expect, the market will lift off in advance. Stay diversified and mainly in blue chips. With mutual funds, consider those that invest in an index. Their lower fees help performance in a tough market. With bonds, longer maturities are best as rates fall...
...less well. Despite a lovely voice, she seems altogether too poised and polished (not to mention too pretty) from the outset. Her desire for Rochester remains something we must take on faith, and her character, for all the gothic doings around her, seems to change little from beginning to end. And that, gentle reader, is something Jane Eyre cannot do without...
...right, a widower still grieving for his wife, killed a year earlier in a car accident, and uneasily trying to raise a daughter about the same age as the murder victim. And Wilson's descriptions often achieve epigrammatic power. Here is Felsen visiting bombed-out Berlin near the end of the war: "Everybody was living underground. The city had been turned upside-down--a honeycomb below, a catacomb above." A Small Death in Lisbon is so carefully textured and so packed with grace notes that its dramatic conclusion seems as much interruption as resolution...
...sons, sarcastically calls his five girls "five blessings." The film tracks the accelerating rebellion of the three eldest, all of whom choose to marry for love, thwarting the efforts of the cranky old matchmaker. It is my dream that someone will someday make a sequel. At the end of Fiddler, Tevye and his wife are about to take their two youngest girls to New York City. If the first three were such headaches in the Russian village, can you imagine the damage these two future flappers of America could do? Fiddler 2 is one Christmas film my family would definitely...