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...1940s Texas, a young man named John Grady Cole (Damon) loses the ranch he loves in an inheritance battle, rounds up a buddy (Thomas) and heads for Mexico, looking for work, looking for adventure; looking, without quite admitting it, for the sort of experience that will make men in full of them. That, stripped of the fancy writing that rendered Cormac McCarthy's novel unreadable to some of us, is the narrative essence of "All the Pretty Horses," and it's not a bad one. The lads almost immediately encounter a funny, violent, nutsy kid (Black), and you know right...
...knows, and we always know, what effect her concoctions will have on her customers. They always shake off their repressions and troubles at precisely the right inspirational moment. Dench's character even manages to die just when she should, with her life's work neatly completed. Made with a sort of tasteful vulgarity, this movie never disappoints the slack-minded audience's anticipation of the humanistically healing banality, the life-crushing behavioral clich...
...want to be policing these types of things," Lewis adds. "I'm not going to hire another five people to pounce on two or three clowns doing something stupid in front of the Science Center. So I guess we take a sort of laissez-faire approach...
...Buckingham's red VES video locker, there are also examples of the typical make-you-cringe sort of video. For a minute and a half, she slowed down her roommate's laugher while focusing her camera on a newborn gerbil with a head injury. Videos that make you sick to your stomach are fashionable right now, and Buckingham is certainly accomplished in this genre. The eerie quality of Buckingham's video work is captured in her "Christmas 81-2000," where a dreamy sequence of caroling and light trails fades to her grandmother on the phone, stating, "I've never molested...
Stevens's pessimism has been widely echoed. Indeed, everyone fervently hoped that the court would be able to find some sort of consensus and ensure maximum possible credibility for the next president, protecting the court's image in the process. That hope has evaporated; despite the spin of Bush's advisors calling this a 7-2 ruling, the reality is perfectly clear. In the end, the justices were split right down the middle on the ideological and partisan lines that were crystal-clear even before they granted Bush's ludicrous request for an emergency stay based on the potential "irreparable...