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He is a man of unflappable ignorance who, despite the round-the-clock presence of his librarian wife, remains all but illiterate.
The divorcing Amy is marginally more believable as a woman whose life has taken a scary new turn than the unflappable single Syd ever was--Amy gets flustered; she doesn't know what to wear; her clothes don't seem designed to show off an improbably sculpted body, as Syd's do; she has no pat reasons for having left her husband; her mom, played by Tyne Daly, is pitch-perfect as the smart, confident older woman who quashes her daughter (she's a more compelling character than Syd's father, a wan veterinarian who can do no wrong); and Amy's own daughter--well, Amy's daughter is unbearable, a stereotypical know-it-all TV tyke.
I'm thinking in particular of Frances McDormand's unflappable pregnant cop in Fargo ; John Turturro's Barton Fink, the mediocre leftist playwright who tries to go Hollywood; and in the new film, Jeff Bridges' incarnation of Jeff Lebowski, a k a the Dude, an amiable stoner who is drawn into a Big Sleep -inspired kidnap scheme.
They are written in the light, teary, lovely style of 19 th -century French song--the style that you can see in a little pastoral love poem of Hugo's, with the singer and pianist joined by Philippa Davies on flute, by clicking . The songs convey some of the orderliness and purity of Hugo's poetic imagination, his unflappable fluency, his verse structures varying with perfect control, as if every possible variation on rhythmic and melodic order lay easily within his grasp--as in, for instance, the opening bars that you can hear by clicking .
He was studiously neutral, utterly unflappable and unfailingly optimistic as bombs, killings and expulsions threatened to derail the peace process.
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