Last decade's " Dangerous Liaisons " gets a makeover with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe as a couple of desultorily rich teens manipulating the romantic lives of everyone around them, purely for their own amusement and without a whit of concern about who may be hurt in the process.
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Instead, we are given a tired litany of repetitious scenes : Willie and his comrades waiting for orders in small, foul-smelling rooms; Willie and his comrades engaging in pointless, random killings; and Willie and his comrades trying desultorily to cover their tracks before they move on to their next meaningless assignment.
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About a week later, she rejoined the 4th Division as it, and the bulk of the Italian fleet, sailed east in a futile search for the Ottoman fleet in the Aegean Sea . " Marco Polo " joined the rest of the fleet in desultorily bombarding the defenses of the entrance to the Dardanelles on 18 April.
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"Cruel Intentions " ( R ) _ Last decade's " Dangerous Liaisons " gets a makeover with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillipe as a couple of desultorily rich teens manipulating the romantic lives of everyone around them, purely for their own amusement and without a whit of concern about whom may be hurt in the process.
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"His Oeuvre, " starring another favorite alter ego, might easily have been an outtake from his last Bech book ( " Bech at Bay " ) : it desultorily chronicles the aging novelist Henry Bech's fleeting encounters with three women he had affairs with several decades ago, including one whose disappearance he continues to regret.
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Fortunately, this glum presentation had the effect of turning nearly everyone away, allowing my 2-year-old son to watch Dennis Oppenheim's mechanized marionettes by himself, dancing alongside, and then to run circles around a sculpture by Gordon Matta-Clark while a handful of passers-by desultorily glanced at vitrines of yellowing Artforum magazines before pushing toward the exit.
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Returning for a second year after a brief run as a midseason replacement last spring, " The Job " offers not just Leary's Mike McNeil misbehaving, but the entire precinct-- cops masquerade as priests to hear perps'confessions, get soused with suspects, use inside mob information to bet the ponies and even vie against one another for a primo apartment after the tenant has been murdered ( desultorily noting, of course, that the blood stains will be difficult to remove ).
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Jan Morris, who was one of Burou s most prominent MTF patients, recalled in her memoir " Conundrum " that he would do his rounds twice daily dressed for the corniche and looking in general pretty devastating . Morris recalled that he would sit at the end of her bed and chat desultorily of this and that, type a few very slow words on [ her ] typewriter, read a headline from " The Times " in a delectable Maurice Chevalier accent, and eventually take an infinitely gentle look at his handiwork .
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CBS desultorily fired two of the co-stars of its phenomenally successful drama, " CSI : Crime Scene Investigation, " when they had the temerity to phone in sick on the first day of work after asking for more money, a year after CBS had ponied up a big raise for Brad Garrett when he pulled the same stunt on " Everybody Loves Raymond, " the network's biggest sitcom . ( The pair were allowed, tails between their legs, to return ) . " A contract's a contract, " CBS CEO Les Moonves declared, after it had long been established that a contract isn't ( BEGIN ITAL ) necessarily ( END ITAL ) a contract.
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However, Andy Gill of " The Independent " wrote that the album is " not bad, just unnecessary ", and this is because " it shifts desultorily from style to style, with songs barely hanging around long enough to state their case . " On the other hand, Andrew Burgess of musicOMH is in disagreement with that sentiment because he told that in the realm of musicality " Mala has a cohesive sound accentuated by a powerful, thumping low end and washing ( but not overpowering ) analogue synths . " In addition, Burgess noted the album is quite " subdued ", and carrying " laid-back tunes unlike anything Banhart has done before . " At " Rolling Stone ", Joe Gross noted that " Banhart seems to grab at anything that would get him out of the freak-folk box; " Mala " is smoother in its amalgamation, drifty melodies and his classic mumble recorded with gorgeously low-fi-sounding muffle . " " The Guardian "'s Kate Mossman felt that Banhart " no longer sounds particularly freaky [ . . . ] it's perfectly normal to record on vintage hip-hop equipment ".
