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...Viewers will pick their own favorite bits, and long soft spots. I liked the star skaters' ferociously competitive idiocy. Demonstrating his skin-scalding machismo, Chazz skates on bare feet, then Jimmy does the human luge on his bare chest. The on-ice routines (overseen by Sarah Kawahara, who choreographed some of Michelle Kwan's medal-winning performances) are both plausible and funny. Craig T. Nelson, as the boys' coach, is neither - why is he in a comedy? In this movie, the inspired bits and the misfired ones are so close to each other, you wonder if anybody involved with...
...side tunnel was shielded with white steel plates and girders, which led into a small steel-walled chamber. The room, which was bare apart from two empty five-gallon water containers, must have been at least 100 feet underground, and could probably have withstood a direct hit by a heavy bomb. A power cable along the walls linked several bare bulbs, while a black plastic bag hanging from a hook contained the remnants of what last summer could have been fresh oranges or apples...
MARION: Memorably embodied by Karen Allen, Marion (Raiders of the Lost Ark) was a two-fisted drinker, a bare-knuckle fighter (unless confined to a wicker basket) and a perfect romantic foil for the rakish Dr. Jones. She was Rosalind Russell to his Cary Grant, Bette Davis to his Errol Flynn--in short, a helluva dame...
...Wolfe--in the way Buckley spins his wonky premise into a story about how the absurdities of Washington demand even greater absurdities in response. And Buckley (who, for the record, is 54) has an endless facility for mimicking the glossy rhetoric of political spin in a way that lays bare its atrocious underlying hypocrisies...
...think the text itself may be the culprit. The course should have a strong accompanying textbook on the model of The Bible and Its Influence but one that is willing to deal a bit more bluntly with the historical warts. And some teacher training is a must: at a bare minimum, about their constitutional obligations...