Word: borrowings
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...first several episodes, solid and often impressive, borrow heavily from the British QAF, though this version is more of an ensemble. Its style is pleasingly candy-colored and frenetic, even if after a few too many whooshing camera moves, you will think you're watching The Gaytrix. QAF is too funny and fresh to get maudlin, thanks especially to the surprisingly versatile Sparks, whose Michael, a romantic with an unrequited crush on Brian, is the de facto liaison to the straight world: "He's so accessible," says Sparks, "he almost forgets he's gay." Harold's preening-sexpot performance...
...perhaps, for his obsessive interest in Dunn, who, for all his bad luck, enjoys perfect health. And we mean perfect. The guy never even gets the sniffles. He is, to borrow this film's perfectly descriptive title, Unbreakable. Moreover, under Price's possibly prompting gaze, he develops a talent for spotting criminals before they actually commit a crime. Despite his modest demeanor and circumstances, Dunn has the potential to be a superhero working the real-life streets of Philadelphia...
...only fair to ask why, if Gore were so vastly superior a candidate, the sniveling public-interest groups didn't do a better job of getting their constituents off the davenport to go vote for him. Election calculus is fuzzy math, to borrow a phrase, but it is possible, as Nader suggests, that fear of his threat to Gore actually got more people out to vote for the Vice President than otherwise would have. And Nader volunteer James Williamson, 49, of Cambridge, Mass., says he is offended by the suggestion that his vote for Nader should have been traded...
...actors too. De Niro pitches his performance on the edge of psychopathy, where menace and comedy very effectively coexist. But it is Gooding who does the most to redeem the movie, tempering his determination with a patient sweetness and casually stated masculine conviction that's thoroughly winning. To borrow a phrase, "Here's looking...
Campaign fatigue. Hang in there, pal. One more week, and we'll all borrow your line...