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The first signs of spring, albeit indoors.
I don’t do milk, but I do this!
A Woman’s Last Word by Robert Browning
I.
Let’s contend no more, Love,
Strive nor weep:
All be as before, Love,
—Only sleep!
II.
What so wild as words are?
I and thou
In debate, as birds are,
Hawk on bough!
III.
See the creature stalking
While we speak!
Hush and hide the talking,
Cheek on cheek!
IV.
What so false as truth is,
False to thee?
Where the serpent’s tooth is
Shun the tree—
V.
Where the apple reddens
Never pry—
Lest we lose our Edens,
Eve and I.
VI.
Be a god and hold me
With a charm!
Be a man and fold me
With thine arm!
VII.
Teach me, only teach, Love
As I ought
I will speak thy speech, Love,
Think thy thought—
VIII.
Meet, if thou require it,
Both demands,
Laying flesh and spirit
In thy hands.
IX.
That shall be to-morrow
Not to-night:
I must bury sorrow
Out of sight:
X
—Must a little weep, Love,
(Foolish me!)
And so fall asleep, Love,
Loved by thee.
From a few weeks ago at a fantastic concert that featured a number of a cappella groups at the University of Michigan.
Of late, the only kind of movie reviews that I seem to be writing are ones that leave a lot to be desired. Not so much my writing (that, of course), but more so in terms of movie quality. This one, I am sad to say, most definitely tops my list in the “greatly disappointing” category.
Mr. Neeson is a force to reckon with — that is a fact well established thanks to the impressive canon of his work to date, but I daresay he’d do well to simply toss this one out of said canon.Â
Long review short: A big-name movie star does not a suspense thriller make. If anything, Mr. Neeson has been sadly typecast into the wily veteran role from his series of Taken movies. He is looking jaded from playing the same type of role five years running. The script lacks originality, the direction is choppy, and quite frankly, there is more a sense of claustrophobia than suspense in the running time.
Please do not race to movie theatres to check this one out. I did, only because it was a Friday night, and I thought that everything would be alright! My spouse offered me a three-word review immediately after: “non-stop crap,” and I wonder if I wouldn’t have been better saying just that and leaving it there!
Here’s another one that I dragged my feet on in producing a review for aforementioned reasons, i.e., movie lacked inspiration and entertainment value. And this is particularly disappointing given the all-star cast of the likes of Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, John Goodman, and Matt Damon. Well, perhaps I’m being a little harsh, but still, what were they thinking? Maybe they all found the script to be fascinating, but unfortunately, the screenplay and storyline didn’t quite turn out the way it had played out on paper?Â
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, the movie focuses on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR to go into Germany, rescue works of art from the Nazis, and return them to their rightful owners. Well, needless to say, they somehow get it done, but we’re left wondering if we’d rather have seen their characters developed instead.
At best, this is a flat film that drifts on (seemingly endlessly) from moment to moment. The plot is not tight enough and there is a sinking feeling that there isn’t much to the inevitable ending. As a lover of art, I feel like I am betraying myself in feeling so poorly about the movie, but that’s how it went down for me.
