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... movie Rocky, Russell's film hits a more eccentric groove, befitting his subject matter. Boxing movie...-- Rex Reed, New York Observer. If The Fighter feels like kind of a mess, lurchin...
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... regime on the Tobique River, one observer cited "'intense feeling among some of the settlers... begins to do justice to his varied and eccentric genius. In 2002 the [ate James Wheaton circulated ...
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As she pursues this mission, it becomes apparent that [Vanessa Beecroft]'s suitability for this kind of parenthood is on shaky ground. For one thing, she barely informs her husband Greg of her decision, leaving him feeling vulnerable after a lawyer calls to confirm that he's on board with his wife's plans. (She already has two biological children at home, largely in the care of a nanny.)
Brettkelly's background check on Beecroft's own family history raises a few red flags too. Beecroft lived with, and largely cared for, her unstable Italian mother after she left her marriage. Beecroft's eccentric father lived apart from her, and though he expresses affection, he's also the type of man who consults with a magic crystal to determine whether or not the adoption is a good idea. (The crystal...
...But any tendency for the observer to mock her self-indulgence is mitigated by direct...
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...'s longstanding subscription to the Observer, the national magazine of the United Church. . In ... a low-key, obscure and even slightly eccentric finale to a career that had once promised--and ind...
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[Robert Downey Jr.]'s Holmes favours dark glasses and elegantly rumpled attire over tweeds and deerstalker caps. But he is as hyper-perceptive as ever, even if that tendency elicits heavy dues: He can't sit alone in a restaurant without threatening to explode from the stimulus of seemingly mundane social intercourse.
The intricate screenplay by Michael Robert Johnson and Anthony Peckham allows [Guy Ritchie] the opportunity to elegantly synthesize his underworld oeuvre with [Arthur Conan Doyle]'s, whether following Holmes and [Watson] stalking the industrial grunge environs of London, or cheekily deconstructing a boxing match between the sleek Holmes and a hulking bruiser.
Downey and Law are terrific together. For me, watching them act is the movie's principal pleasure ... Downey, like J...
... on the cusp of abandoning the wildly eccentric, antisocial detective in favour of an anchored lif...-- Rex Reed, New York Observer. A handsome, entertaining romp of a film that they...
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...To an outside observer, a large school with many students is impressive: ...'Eccentricity,' 'robust individualism, 'troppo' are local labels...
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Ryan Phillippe (Flags of our Fathers) plays FBI newbie Eric O'Neill, a hardworking keener hoping to fast-track to agent. Eric is disappointed when he's taken off counter-terrorism fieldwork to shadow veteran agent [Robert Hanssen]. Eric's handler Kate Burroughs (Laura Linney) orders him to report on Hanssen while ostensibly acting as his personal assistant. She tells him that Hanssen has become a security risk because he's a sexual deviant.
In his private life Hanssen is a devout Catholic who attends daily morning mass and is devoted to his wife and six children. At work he's brilliant, but also brusque, arrogant, resentful, and so envious of his colleagues' success that he makes Eric steal a painting from one of his higher-ups. He's impatient with politicking, glad-handing and bureaucr...
... a performance by Chris Cooper, as the eccentric, contradictory Hanssen, that ought to be remembere...-- Rex Reed, New York Observer. * It's not interested in cheap thrills or playin...
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...' construction, shaped by the project's eccentric architect, and of course, the politicians of the d... Victoria:1842-1970 (Victoria: Victoria Observer Publishing Company, 1970), p.78. . ...
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... when they point to conclusions frankly eccentric. (xxi) But how, precisely, does he apply those int...* "Cardinal Sapieha [here he quotes an observer] .. seemed an evil and ruthless person, and an ant...
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For the Record - Editorial
..., a former editor of The United Church Observer, gave me good counsel in advising that a church pu... that includes the rebellious and the eccentric. James Croil, the first editor, articulated the ro...