Word: though
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...middle-ground: a cabin in the middle of nowhere. Be it Montana, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Colorado, South Carolina or Virginia, we'd shack up in the woods and spend our days horseback riding, cow tipping, mini-golfing, go-cart riding or apple-picking. I, of course, was beside myself. Though I could barely form complete sentences, I do remember launching into diatribes: "Where are the five star hotels? The paparazzi? My close-up?" My brother sucked it up and tried to pretend that he was Thoreau, forced to the outskirts of civilization. But who could have predicted that the Midwest would...
...real delight of the film though comes from West, who adds verve to her acting with her gravelly seductive voice, overtly invasive glances-at both male and female characters- and exaggerated mannerisms, which all make it seem as if she is surveying her admirers as pieces of meat that she's thinking of devouring. She knows that her power comes from the exploitation of her sexuality, and thus harnesses this to manipulate every man that she comes in contact with...
...what they love, that purposefully works its most promising talents to the point of exhaustion and despair. It is a subtle, unspoken, cold kind of violence, all the more disturbing for its complete lack of passion. It is a violence so ethereal that it is almost impossible to name, though a play like The Ohio State Murders makes it impossible to ignore. Ultimately, Stern and Kennedy were right to draw this most troubling layer of human cruelty out of an already troubling script-and to draw it out with such beautiful, stark imagery that we cannot help but watch...
...lost, though. You might have already heard Aaliyah's opening track "Try Again" on 94.5, due in large part to its "Hot Boyz"-inspired use of bass and distortion (the lyrics are about as clichd as they come). The second track too-this one with both Aaliyah and DMX-might make its way into a club, somewhere during a full set dedicated to DMX's canine persona. C+ -Franklin J. Leonard...
...gender restriction, while carefully respecting the terms of the original gift," Knowles wrote in an e-mail message yesterday. "Dean Dunn and I agreed that since these discussions were inconclusive, we could not award the prize this year, but we firmly aim to resolve them so that--in some (though necessarily changed) form--it could be awarded next year...