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Todorov has a special interest in politicians, people for whom physiognomy can be destiny. Take Mikhail Gorbachev. After the ursine Leonid Brezhnev, Gorby was Kris Kringle. His rounded cheeks, his careless hairlessness, even his great red spot all left him looking disarmingly rumpled. That was a guy who not only could dismantle an empire and knock down a wall but would also remember to keep caramels in his pocket for the grandkids. Vladimir Putin, by contrast, is less gentle grandpa than live mink. President George W. Bush may have looked into Putin's soul and been reassured by what...
...around the country as they waited for the President's broadcast. In 2004, senior Spanish Socialist Jose Bono was taped at a party meeting quietly telling a colleague that Tony Blair was an "imbecile" and "a complete d___head." Canadian PM Jean Chretien annoyed his American neighbors with some careless tittle-tattle at a 1997 NATO summit in Madrid. "In your country and my country, all the American politicians would be in prison because they sell their votes," he told Belgian leader Jean-Luc Dehaene and, unwittingly, Canadian broadcaster CBC. In 1993, British PM John Major had finished...
...lays out his plotlines in the movie's static beginning. There's obviously a compulsive component to his nature. But he more than rewards our patience when he finally flings himself into action. There is a very firm sense of screen geography when the guns start flashing, no careless frenzy in his staging, only a sort of deadly logic. It's a quality that's always in short supply when crime movies commence winding down. And it's worth waiting for in Miami Vice...
...fest of mutilation. A fisherman catches a strange creature and gets a hook under his skin. Seeking medical help from a voodoo mistress, he screams in agony as fish hooks emerge from his body: his hands, chest, eyes! More elaborate mayhem ensues, involving a chic-looking teacher and her careless students. (What Cromartie High School does for boys, and Linda, Linda, Linda for girls, this one does, in suppurating spades, for teachers.) I confess I didn?t see it all of Devil 2 - not from squeamishness, but because the disk provided to me had the name of the production company...
...lost my cell phone more times than I care to admit. My friends consider me—endearingly, I hope—a clumsy, irresponsible fool. They shake their heads when I admit that voicemails have gone unheard; my mother sighs in shame at the wasted money and the careless child she raised. To make matters worse, I am also notoriously bad with e-mails. Days can go by as I “forget” to check my mail; if my laptop’s charger isn’t nearby, that’s often reason enough...