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In the film's most self-consciously poetic set piece, Ricky shows Lester's dour daughter Jane--in whom he recognizes a kindred spirit--a video of a plastic bag fluttering up, down, and around on invisible currents of wind.
The Carriage Museum (Museo delle Carrozze), in a wing on the far right of the palace, and the Royal Apartments (Appartamenti Monumentali), upstairs, right of the main entrance, show an opulent, truly palatial life that the palazzo’s dour exterior never lets you suspect.
In geopolitics, the dour Samuel Huntington also sees tribes but predicts a tectonic "clash of civilizations."
Caruso, as a dour, crusading prosecutor, is called, alternatively, "credible" and "likable" (Shales, the Washington Post ), and humorless and "as virtuous as John Calvin" (Leonard, New York ). (See CBS's preview.)
But what the LAT does not report, the NYT seizes on: Under the headline "Hormone That Slimmed Fat Mice Disappoints as Panacea in People," Gina Kolata (who last year came under fire for over -hyping a cancer study) gives a dour prognosis.