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...health reasons, one has to cease getting furious at Hollywood for mangling great novels and instead allow a movie version to stand on its own. This season's Austen fare, "Emma," adapted and directed by Douglas McGrath, borrows the book's social satire, but unwisely replaces its canny ironic bite with what in comparison resembles absurd slapstick. We can enjoy the product of this limited adaptation--funny, outrageously decorated--but it's anything but great Austen...
...breaststroke at 1:07.02 and went on to win a second gold in the 200-m event--the first swimming medals won by South Africa since it was barred from the Games for its policies of apartheid. As Amy Van Dyken says, "An underdog can have a vicious bite...
Which is a shame, because Yglesias is a skillful, intelligent writer and the questions addressed in this novel have some real bite. To what extent are people responsible for their own behavior? Who is to assess their degree of guilt or innocence? And how is it possible to distinguish the healers from those who need healing...
...prances around the stage, whirling past the sputtering Ed and twirling around the nervous Pat, the audience is often brought to laughter from his cartoon-like demeanor. How could this play be anything but a comedy with someone so blatantly melodramatic, whose wit is even sharper than his bite? More importantly, how could he NOT be a vampire, since he shines with energy and vicious vivaciousness as several of his human counterparts struggle to keep their own pulses going...
...amusing and a bit sad at the end of the 20th century to watch two powerful, talented American women competing, power bite for power bite, for the position of--First Lady. Why are Elizabeth Dole and Hillary Clinton, both "accomplished and ambitious" politicians with Ivy League degrees and high-flying careers, battling it out for the honor of being the unpaid helpmeet of the most powerful man in the world? Is it because they're devoted wives or because the White House has a glass ceiling? If these women have star-quality expertise, then, yes, we should hold the proposed...