Word: manner
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...cranky old writer and the very bright teenager. The film's twists and turns are as predictable as the patronizing racism at the private school that grants the boy a scholarship. Something more surprising might have been made of this odd couple, but Van Sant, emptily employing the realist manner of his early films, is goodwill hunting in all the wrong places...
...world of the near future, all manner of content--magazines, movies, music, books, shopping--will be pouring into your home through your cable television line. The cable is now known as broadband because, even though it looks the same, technology has made it fatter and faster. When broadband access fuses the new and old economies with a bang, consumers will have a simple concern: If the broadband world is ruled by one company, will we have to pay more? Will we have a choice of what we watch? And if we don't stop them now, will we be able...
...sardonic viewers the old dope peddler of Tom Lehrer's song, "spreading joy wherever [s]he goes." Indeed, some of the desserts apparently contain aphrodisiacs. The movie itself may suggest to those who find themselves unsusceptible to its fabulistic charms how easy it has become to travesty the manner of what used to be thought of as "art movies." This one has something of their air--an attractive, slightly exotic setting; characters who appear to have some substance and some curious quirks. But everything is spun toward sugary sentimentality...
...little vague on a lot of things. Yes, we are looking at a steep learning curve. The worst moment of the 36-day Long Count was probably when Bush, attempting to "look presidential," held a mock Cabinet meeting, in the course of which he observed in an appallingly chipper manner, "There are issues in Israel right now that I'm looking forward to hearing about...
...bonding that takes place among Harry, Ron and Hermione is because each of them is disadvantaged in some way. Hermione is deeply insecure under her know-it-all manner, and the way to underline that aspect of her is to make her come, like Harry, from a different world [her parents are both Muggles, i.e., nonwizards], so that this is scary to her, and she copes with it the only way she knows how to cope, which is to overachieve...