Faced with collapsing fish populations, whether the disappearance of the cod fishery on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland or the failure of the North Sea herring fisheries, the reaction has been one of half-hearted measures: too little done too late in a chain of endless procrastination excused by the need for ever more scientific research.
She didn't stop performing until she was 72 and choreographed one of her rare light-hearted works, Maple Leaf Rag, just a year before her death.
She wasn't much of a smiler, and considering this is a tour about disco, surely one of the most light-hearted, frivolous and fun forms of music, she could have lightened up a little.
The scene that resonated most strongly with me was the one in which the kind-hearted neighbor, Larry, learns how fleeting that feeling of having the latest and greatest (in his case, a shiny red new sports car) can wear off when someone rounds the corner in an even shinier and newer coupe.
To dismantle the love triangle, rather than choose one admirer over another, some faint-hearted characters may choose neither, a preposterous solution that assumes a person might actually be artful enough to pull off such wholesale rejection of love.
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At one point midway through the first half Myrie-Williams evaded four half-hearted challenges and worked his way into a shooting position to the left of the goal, only to blast into the side netting.
Contrary to the liberal stereotype of the hard-hearted right-winger, opposition to income-leveling is not evidence that one does not care about others.
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The Cost understandably finds the band harboring more commercial ambitions than usual, even re-casting a pair of Swell Season songs as radio-friendly mid-tempo ballads, but no one involved has forgotten Hansard's odd ability to sound sweetly romantic, big-hearted, self-deprecating and emotionally stunted at the same time.
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