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...material here for a gripping story about a man whose habits of life and belief are being challenged in all sorts of ways. But essentially the movie settles for pretty pictures. The love stories are presented with gingerly discretion. Jefferson's affair with Maria is all arch, twittering banter in an antique style; nothing in it elevates their pulses (or the audience's). Hemings is presented as a wise, if untutored, child, more of a nursemaid to Jefferson than a believably sexual being. It's hard to see what he saw in either of them, and the script does...
Through film festivals, frisbee games, and dining hall banter, students have been drawn to these tutors who have gained cult status by being approachable, personable, and interested in their students. Ironically, aloof professors who place themselves on a pedestal are not the ones who become revered by students...
...effort went into this event, says one of her advisers (who reportedly included ABC's Peter Jennings and the Los Angeles Times' Robert Scheer), consider that it took over 20 years for Streisand to return to the stage for her 1994 concert tour, and that even her between-song banter had to be put on a TelePrompTer. But that was easy compared to The Speech. ``This,'' the adviser says, ``made her much more nervous...
Sensitive youth seeks sensible woman. Object: talk, talk, talk Can anything be more annoying than the prattle of an insensitive guy trying to impress a woman? Yes: the prattle of a sensitive guy. Surely you've overheard this banter in parks and restaurants. The fellow pontificates on the mystery of love, quotes from the Lake poets, shares the most fragile intimacies. And lurking inside his earnestness is this tacit question: "So-now that I've proved what a refined soul I am-can we have...
...movie, which basically follows an extended conversation between a guy and a girl who meet on a train, falls flat, Corliss feels. "This two-character talkfest, a kind of Eric Rohmer meets Harry meets Sally, wins points for daring to be a love story," says Corliss. But the banter "often plays like desperate showing-off."BOOKS . . . A PRIVATE VIEW (Random House; 242 pages; $23): This wise and funny novel is about love between two people with very little in common: a woman filled with flaky California-isms (adept as she is in Vibrasound, Tantric Massage, Reflexology, Color Counseling...