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...Standing Firm does not appear to contain many fresh disclosures. Only the uncharitable tone is striking. Quayle is hardly the first to notice that Brent Scowcroft, not Baker, was the real architect of most of Bush's foreign policy successes. Nor is it news that Kemp can be an aimless talkaholic or that Baker looks out for No. 1. Even Quayle's closest advisers lament that the book lacks anything approaching a Quayle vision of the future. "It's a funny book," said one of them. "It's less of a positive conservative agenda for the future than a look...
...moment of sexual curiosity. Within minutes the pair are rocketed into abiding love. Then the hyperkinetic narrative is suspended for about 20 minutes to accommodate a folksy dance number and a comic song in which the only joke is that a fisherman smells like fish. The action alternates between aimless divertissement and melodrama for an overblown three hours. At the end, the central character -- a petty crook named Billy Bigelow (Hayden) who kills himself rather than face capture by the police -- returns to earth as a prospective angel to save his adolescent daughter from a fate like...
Johnny 's fury of ideas mingles with his explosive emotions to make him one of the most unpredictable characters seen in many years. Surprisingly, the viewer rarely wonders, "where is this film going?" The viewer understands the film follows Johnny 's aimless wanderings, but like, Johnny , the viewer sees the distinct change in the end, or so one thinks. By the end of the film, after the climactic moment of the abduction of Sophie by the pretentious, pompous, sex-crazed "landlord " Sebastian and the following attempts to kick him out of the house, Johnny returns from his many days...
...only has a good ear for the sound of her contemporaries but also knows how to shape it into dialogue that is pointed and full of unforced observations. Director Ben Stiller keeps things crisp, no small matter in a movie that features a fair amount of aimless activity and just plain lying around. The latter takes place in the "maxipad" Lelaina shares with Vickie (Janeane Garofalo), who sometimes imagines her own funeral as a scene from Melrose Place ("chokers and halter tops"), Sammy (Steve Zahn), who is gently receding into the wallpaper, and Troy (Ethan Hawke), who is a philosopher...
Love Medicine was loose and episodic, but the structure of The Bingo Palace seems all but aimless. So does real life most of the time, but unless Erdrich is herding her large cast toward a fifth novel that will pull things together, the reader is entitled to a bit of head scratching. Over most of its course, the new book seems to focus on a love affair that young Lipsha Morrissey never quite convinces beautiful Shawnee Ray that she should dive into with him. (His failure may have something to do with an unsuccessful vision quest during which...