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...Seinfeld (NBC) The granddaddy of modern urban sitcoms is still hipper, still wittier than its offspring. Now in its eighth season, the show has maintained its brilliant comic rhythms and dark undertones, and this season boasts some of the most original episodes ever. Kramer's stash of Japanese businessmen--need we say more...
There was a glaring omission in your article on roadsters: the Miata. Introduced in 1989, it led the resurgence of the roadster. The Japanese, with the aid of a brilliant group of American designers, gave us back a true European-style sports car, the Miata, with one important extra: dependability. JEFF JURY, Founder Delaware Valley Miata Club Cherry Hill, New Jersey...
Once upon a time, there was a wise and aged turtle who was renowned throughout the swamp for the brilliant and lively gatherings he regularly held at his house. He attracted only the most erudite of animals--sagacious frogs who were experts in insect biology, beautifully plumed birds who would manipulate song and poetry to the highest degree, blinking fish who were masters of modern languages, and many others. They convened daily, not only among themselves, but also with the younger and lesser-learned animals of the swamp, with whom they shared ideas through lively conversation and written scholarship...
This is a brilliant impersonation. Atwood has saturated herself in the social attitudes and intellectual currents of Canada a century and a half ago. She is scrupulous in not pretending to know the whole truth of Grace Marks. Who, the author notes, was at last freed from prison after 29 years. And who immigrated to New York State and there disappeared from sight...
...going to cut out all the sex, then it damn well had better be funny. Thankfully, it is--"The Mirror Has Two Faces" has some of the sharpest one-liners around, mostly at the hands of the incredible supporting cast. Silver-screen legend George Segal is brilliant as Gregory's womanizing buddy, a suave and sarcastic anthropology professor who admittedly prefers T-and-A over IQ: "I gave my last girlfriend a copy of Farewell to Arms--she thought it was a diet book." Lauren Bacall is also superb as Rose's mother Hannah, an aging beauty whose...