Among the sprawling views and long loud lines, Smith intersperses sparser fare: sonnets and couplets, unobtrusive in their skewed rhyme ("open" and "stolen," "hate" and "complicate").
Several videos posted online now refer to a food crisis, and some confirm that bakeries there have become opposition outposts, with long, loud lines snaking around corners as armed rebels keep order, telling customers that they are only paying what is needed to cover bakery expenses.
Then again, Daniel M. Snyder is just the latest in a long loud line of Redskin owners established by George Preston Marshall, embraced by Edward Bennett Williams and enhanced by Jack Kent Cooke.
The director, Robert Luketic, who did far better with "Legally Blonde," appears to have instructed his actors to (over play their roles for the hard of seeing and hard of hearing, resulting in across-the-board loud line readings, mugging faces and flopping (clothed) body parts.
(Or is that the Spitzer synchronicity again?) There are also many smile-inducing, if not laugh-out-loud, lines here.
"Pictures from an Institution," Randall Jarrell's screwball comedy of American academia in the forties, is another matter; it has more laugh-out-loud lines than any book I know.
All that is the stuff of comedy, and Mr. Healey's flair for writing laugh-out-loud lines extends beyond the obvious, encompassing idiosyncratic dialogue and a lovely sense of the absurd.
With its emotional sharpness balanced against laugh-out-loud lines, Akhavan's movie feels a lot more like something by Baumbach or Sarah Polley than the hipster-awkwardness-as-artform seen in Girls.
Ms. McKenna, who adapted "The Devil Wears Prada" for the screen, arms this script with laugh-out-loud lines, only to undercut them with soggy filler involving Becky's romance with another producer, Adam Patrick Wilsonn), and her equally suspense-free relationship with her reluctant new anchor, the gruff and boozy Mike Pomeroy Harrison Fordd).
Laugh-out-loud lines include: "As I travel down the track all my memories flood back/ We were running like infantry men back to your mamma's flat/ It's the only place but home I feel relaxed enough to crap/ I know it sounds crude, but there's something in that".
Cox, perhaps not coincidentally, decided to keep quiet after he had a loud argument with the defensive line coach, Ray Hamilton, in front of reporters on the last day in which practices were open to the public.
