That might seem like an odd label for this adaptation of Lionel Shriver‘s best-selling novel, considering the relentlessly harrowing subject matter in question, but it’s hard to come up with any other phrase to describe the sheer vivacity of Ramsay‘s directorial approach. This is indeed a...
That riff about “don’t be ridiculous” is, yes, a reference to Balki’s beloved yet vaguely remembered catchphrase from the sitcom Perfect Strangers. “All mine! I’m rich! I’m fabulously wealthy” is from that cartoon where Daffy Duck finds the genie cave. Blockbusters was a game sho...
On the heels of my post from last week aboutmaking new milestones, the phrase that keeps coming to me is, “Let go of the way you think things are supposed to be and embrace what is.” That’s a big one for me because I have a lot of “supposed tos.” Everything from I’m su...
Lack of control over her own life is one of the most striking features of the book. Her hair is cut short (more than once) even though she wants to grow it long. Her name keeps changing –“They stole my name,” she says, “They took me- away from me.” The phrase ‘a new so...
When I sat down to write this blogpost, the only phrase that came to mind was, "There is enough." There is enough time, money, energy, resources, and food. There is enough of everything. This is especially important as I'm wrapping up my life in Washington, D.C. I leave for Eur...
Thus, though the historical record is unclear as to the exact origin of the term “useful idiots,” Lenin is said to have deemed them as such, whether or not he actually used the phrase. *** At least initially, American communists only saw the righteousness of the Bolshevik cause. Equalit...
But the players, the press and everybody else in the sphere of Penn State football would know that beyond incurring Paterno's displeasure, the player had been deemed unworthy. He had been excommunicated. He had been, in a phrase repeated...
The reason this is important to share is because I get so many “My husband left me for another woman” emails (and emails from men whose wives left) and what I see happen so often is that the person paints this picture in their head that everything is blissful with their ex and ...
Chase the phrase “one another” through the last half of your New Testament and you’ll see what I mean. We really do need each other. More profoundly, more desperately than we even begin to realize. As a matter of fact, we were given to one another by the Lord of the Body—...
There have been so many ups and downs twists and turns, that it’s brought that “live for the day” phrase to a whole new level. And I’m not just talking about the weather. Life has been very hard on us and the people that we love. Stress and fear weigh heavy on me. I am ...