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Mark Rylance is beginning to pall, with his "enigmatic" look and one-note approach to any crisis, from miscarriages to beheadings.
Songs - songs! - emerged from the pall, with Copeland singing in a fashion reminiscent of Martina Tonley-Bird on Tricky's classic Maxinquaye and playing the melodica.
The teasing and titillation (an excess of self-touching) pall with repetition, and Mr. Freeman's attempts to expand beyond the core conceit with topical material — to transcend the sensations of a low-budget haunted house — falter.
The senior cast members, who include Paul Shelley and Carol Royle as creepily chipper observers of Andy's failing health, fare somewhat better on the strength of sheer experience and know-how, though even the admirable Ms. Findlay's pursed lips begin to pall with time.
She cast such a pall with her sulking (though her appetite never diminished, Merwin notes, and tells of balefully watching Plath attack a fine foie gras "for all the world as though it were 'Aunt Dot's meat loaf' ") that Hughes had to cut the visit short.
Now, Russia is hoping to dispel that pall with its biggest slate of lunar and planetary missions since the early 1970s.
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Raylan was shovelling coal in his teens, palling with Boyd, eking out an existence in poverty-stricken Kentucky.
So this is a playfully self-conscious novel, reflecting on the relationships between reading and experience in a manner that is initially beguiling but palls with repetition.
The founders of Dannijo — Danielle Snyder, 27, and her sister, Jodie Snyder, 30 — are known to post photographs of themselves sunning in Mexico, hobnobbing with billionaires like Richard Branson, and palling with Cynthia Rowley at Art Basel Miami Beach.
(One image of Simpson bro-palling with Trump proves especially stomach-turning; the current president also makes a creepy cameo in 13th).
Sarah Palin began the barrage on Sunday with her "palling around with a domestic terrorist" remarks.
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