This meditation is centered loosely on two young philosophy students, a man and a woman, and a mysterious teacher, Mr. Davidson, who also seems to be a sort of secret agent.
A sweeping look at 20th-century Europe, this ambitious Hungarian novel opens in 1989 and is centered, loosely, on a Budapest apartment building whose residents have been trapped in the torpor of Communist tyranny.
(Rooney)20110624 ★ 'My Girlfriend's Boyfriend' (closes on Saturday) With his 2008 show, "Sleepwalk With Me," Mike Birbiglia proved that he is a supremely enjoyable monologuist, and this new one-man effort, loosely centered on his sad-sack love life, will do nothing to disappoint his fans or newcomers.
(Rooney)20110609 ★ 'My Girlfriend's Boyfriend' With his 2008 show, "Sleepwalk With Me," Mike Birbiglia proved that he is a supremely enjoyable monologuist, and this new one-man effort, loosely centered on his sad-sack love life, will do nothing to disappoint his fans or newcomers.
Based on a 19th-century novel by a globe-trotting Polish count, the film is a vertiginous set of tales within tales within tales, all loosely centered on Mr. Has's hapless protagonist, a Belgian military officer on a journey over the mountains to Madrid.
"Duck Dynasty" is loosely centered on the Duck Commander business, which is headed by Willie Robertson, 39, the third of Phil and Kay's four sons.
Their new "Vanishing Point" might be considered another, since it is loosely centered on the idea of a funeral, with the audience, like a church congregation, facing a draped coffin on a bier.
It isn't necessary to know that Gray based the movie loosely on family stories — centered on the motley crew that frequented Hurwitz's, the bar that his great-grandfather ran in that era, and on his great-aunt's tales of the neighborhood pimp — to get a sense of the movie's unifying flux of past and present.
The show is centered on the fictional Braverman clan and loosely adapted from the 1980s Ron Howard movie of the same name, and chances are high that you have not seen it.
The movie is a series of vignettes, practically blackouts, that jump back and forth in time and among a loosely connected group of characters centered on Linda, a young ethnic Chinese woman (Ladya Cheryl).
Topographically and emotionally, his loosely assembled collection of walks is centered on two heartlands: southern England's soft chalk downs and the unyielding Scottish north.
