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...married. However, the film tries to explain his foibles through overdone flashbacks that are peppered haphazardly throughout the film. It’s as if Hackford doesn’t trust us enough to make sense of things on our own, offering us visually tacky psychologically explanatory sequences that retard the tone and tenor of the film...
...that make the first act of The Grudge, Hollywood’s latest attempt at remaking a foreign blockbuster, extremely enjoyable. Yet tension gives way to torpor as the first act crawls to a close: The slow reserved pace that initially generates bloodcurdling moments soon begins to retard the motion of the film. It never picks up pace leaving the great horror movie moments without resonance at all: They are simply empty shocks. Even the supposed surprise ending becomes an “Oh, okay” moment instead of a “Wow, no way, that?...
...sure, Huntington’s thesis is not unassailable. He is, in my view, unduly pessimistic about the capacity of the melting pot to work for Mexican immigrants. There seems little historical or social-scientific merit to his contention that intrinsic “Mexican values” retard their assimilation. This argument is disturbingly reminiscent of the “Asian values” shibboleth that was used to justify authoritarian dictatorships in Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea. It’s obvious why Mexican-Americans would find it wholly offensive...
Good thing. Turns out kids aren't little adults, after all. New studies show that young children need to take the epilepsy drug Neurontin in higher doses than adults because they excrete it faster. And Prozac, the drug that carried bewildered Gen X-ers through the '90s, can retard growth in kids and adolescents...
...three Abrahamic faiths, Islam is the most ferociously opposed to the straying of its flock. Shari'a law calls for the death penalty for those who convert to other religions, and although the penalty is not binding in most Muslim-majority states, persecution is common. This alone would not retard missions work. Most evangelists accept it as a cost of sharing faith. What did slow their efforts was a more prosaic measure: the gradual elimination by most Muslim countries of professional "religious worker" visas. Established organizations built around salaried missionary lifers found themselves hamstrung...