Nonetheless this classy, heart-on-its-sleeve movie is packed with laudable life lessons and Depression-era trivia, including the fact that the hobo sign of fish bones means really good garbage (particularly useful on the Upper East Side).
To be honest, I did not know that much about him except that he seemed to have an astonishingly glamorous and laudable life, charging around the world, reporting on appalling injustices.
Despite a story unavoidably more invested in Kit's color-coordinated '30s outfits than in the harsh realities of extreme poverty, this classy, heart-on-its-sleeve movie is bolstered by lively adult performances (Stanley Tucci, Joan Cusack) and packed with laudable life lessons.
For strictly journalistic purposes, I decided to talk with Holl about his laudable purpose in life, which is to spread the gospel of beer.
His wishlist for scientists begins, simply, with "The Prolongation of Life", a laudable goal considering life expectancy at birth at the time was less than 40 years old.
On the bus, two Polish girls are comparing notes on their sex life with laudable frankness.A bit later, on the tube, three Lithuanians are discussing a complicated and dodgy-sounding business to do with a container, some forged documents, and a British "colleague".
Rudolph W. Giuliani has been lauded worldwide for his stalwart leadership after the Sept. 11 attacks, but the judge handling the former mayor's divorce case suggested yesterday that he had been less laudable in his private life and that his years in office had hurt his relationship with his children.
"He has otherwise led a life marked by laudable community service," she said.
Then, when the film moves on to Tulip's toilet habits and sex life, that seems laudable, too, for a while: it's showing the nitty-gritty of dog ownership, not the cutesified Marley & Me version.
What de Grey and other immortalists seem to have lost sight of is that simply living a full life span is a laudable goal.
Verghese notes correctly that "immortalists seem to have lost sight of" the fact that "simply living a full life span is a laudable goal," and that they are likelier to promote countless "years of infirmity and suffering".
