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Indiana finishes with a general shudder, a random Los Angeles earthquake, a "shallow-focus event unaccompanied by volcanic activity."
Almost all the scenes she writes and stages are blandly generalized--a homogeneity that seems part commercial cunning (her movies go down easy, like Muzak) and part the result of being rich and snobbishly insulated on the Upper West Side of New York City, that magic kingdom where people parade their liberalism but the word "Brooklyn" is always good for a laugh and a shudder.
I was allowed to waveAway the tray of nougat--or rather, the flies on it.Sipping, I waited for a word, a sign from the saint.I'd wanted to lie, as if underground, and watch Him dig up the sky, or stand at a riverbankAnd have the water sweep off my presumptions,Have him blow light into my changeling bones.I wanted to feel the stalk rise and the blade fall.I wanted my life's arithmetic glazed and fired.I wanted the hush, the wingstroke, the shudder.
Toward the end of the film, as Pitt's Harrer contemplates the takeover of Tibet by the intolerant, totalitarian Chinese, he says in a voice-over, "I shudder to recall how once, long ago, I embraced the same beliefs."
In fact, we shudder to think of all that our young Slovakian friends might have missed without the Enquirer this month, from the detailed story of the wedding of a woman missing the entire lower half of her body (she walked up the aisle on her hands, with the garter concealed under her sleeve) to the assertion that Al Gore may be more electable than George W. Bush because of his strong jaw and cheekbones.
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