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...NOVEL, chronicling the young reporter's struggle for Truth and the big story in the big city amidst villanous editors, grizzled and/or washed-up veterans and properly eccentric sources, gives a vivid if somewhat melodramatic picture of the most influential--except perhaps for the Peking People's Daily--newspaper in the world...
...young quarterback went to the endzone three times in his next four passes, but the Princeton prevent defense proved resilient and the Harvard hopes for victory lay drowned amidst the muddy brown turf...
...YORKER, he is a meatball amidst the linguinous prose of Pauline Kael, et al, and in book form his essays stand up well. They are not meant to be read all together at one sitting, but to be savored, like stuffed peppers in chili sauce. If one dare bother to complain, Allen may not be clever enough. His stories are a form of verbal slapstick; he is desperately self-conscious when he puns...
...visitors' eagerness to choose something-anything-seems at odds with the widespread notion that nowadays reading is an endangered activity. The townspeople jostle amidst the shelves, teasing and badgering one another to decisions...
...time, to have removed part of the plot and left other parts so that the story remains confusing. At worst, it is incomprehensible; at best, it requires a curious patience that will sort though the bizarre imagery for the right link. Yet the triumph of the extraordinary amidst the ordinary makes a frightening film...