Not exact matches
And there was this great, it was my favorite moment of the weekend and it was this very dramatic moment, when basically Emanuel was complaining a
little bit, very politely, and smiling about the
fact that journalists still are doing
stories about, you
know, the debate around climate science, but there's not really, of course, there's not a debate, there's consensus that anthropogenic global warming is happening and that, why are you still doing these
stories, asking questions?
mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the
story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I
know some more
facts but very
little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction
In
fact, Michael Myers is such a great evil figure because although we
know his back -
story, we essentially see so
little of him that we can create the monster in our own imagination; a much scarier world than that any Hollywood prosthetics of CGI could ever create.
It's a fun
little spin on the usual RPG narrative, where we tend to meet new party members in the middle of their own personal
story and get to
know them after the
fact.
It is both history and appreciation, chockablock with inside
stories and
little -
known facts.
In our digital world, where anyone with a
little know - how can post unverified
stories online and frame them as
fact, when solid web design can make an advertisement seem like an article, and the question of what is and what is not «fake news» seems to come up on a daily basis, how do young people — «digital natives» — vet all the information in front of them?
Inspired by a few
facts from Errol Flynn's life, and rooting her
story firmly in Jamaican history, Cezair - Thompson vividly imagines the life of Ida, who is
little more than a child herself when she gives birth to her daughter May, the illegitimate child of 1930 / 40s movie star Errol Flynn -
known as a swashbuckling adventurer on screen, and for his glittering parties and affairs off screen.
I
know I wasn't the first one to tackle this
story, but I think the
fact that I called him out as a hypocrite (and struck a
little controversy around it) really made the post stand out.
Little known fact: I've actually
known Larry since he helped me on a
story I wrote for the Orlando Sentinel back in 2007.
These are just a couple of the
little -
known facts presented in the Famous Trials section of the Web site Awesome
Stories.
I
know just a
little bit about you and the
fact that you used to be with McKinsey & Company and I'm interested in kind of taking you back to those pre-PolicyGenius days and getting a
little bit more about your back
story.