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...hard to take a guy like that seriously and already some critics are calling Black Book "vulgar," mainly, it seems to me, because it so radically subverts genre anticipations. Or, possibly, because it more than fulfills their deeply suspicious expectations of a Verhoeven movie. I think they're wrong. I think they're so transfixed by the movie's reckless pace and its often dim view of the human behavior that they ignore the grim and sobering message it imparts...
...That's especially so in this context: a "foreign" film that's paced like a Jerry Bruckheimer action spectacle, one that keeps stripping its leading actress and placing her in one sexually charged situation after another, while challenging the essential good guy/bad guy conflict of almost every movie ever made about "the good war." It discomfits us and makes us dubious about the filmmaker's intentions...
...illegal when you are running the government. We don't hold the director of the Office of Management and Budget to the same standard that we hold the chairman of a failing automobile-parts manufacturer. That's fortunate for many here in Washington and unfortunate for the guy who probably thought that after running the government, running the parts manufacturer would be easy...
...caused real damage to his reputation,” Finkelstein said. “I think that Dershowitz is desperate to discredit me to be able to say that this Finkelstein guy couldn’t even get tenure at a third-rate Catholic University, so how can we take him seriously...
...rhythm, pitching five consecutive scoreless innings to give his team a chance to come back. “You take away those two innings and we’re right there,” junior Matt Vance said. “He’ll probably be our guy for the rest of the year who will be in there to throw strikes.” But despite the gutsy effort by Unger, he was no match for Baumann, an opponent who Unger has become familiar with in his years at Harvard, albeit in a different sport. Like Unger, Baumann...