Word: carolyne
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Conscientiousness may, indeed, be part of the problem. In converting the story of Rusty Sabich (Harrison Ford), a public prosecutor forced by circumstantial evidence and local political imperatives to stand trial for the murder of Carolyn Polhemus (Greta Scacchi), an upper-slutty colleague, Pakula seems overawed by the book's critical and popular success. Whatever its other virtues, Presumed Innocent was basically a page turner; the movie is a slow burner...
...filmmakers also fail to cure the central defect of the novel's plotting. Carolyn's murderer has an excellent motive both for killing her and for making sure Sabich, Carolyn's sometime lover, is accused of the crime. Sabich is like the traditional Hitchcock hero: not guilty of the crime he is accused of but guilty of other moral malfeasance. But it is hard to accept the possibility that the real perpetrator would leave his escape from the trap entirely to chance...
...believes great stock tips come from everyday life, so he pays close attention to the buying habits of his wife Carolyn and their three daughters. When Carolyn began bringing L'eggs panty hose home from the supermarket in the 1970s, Lynch recognized a winning product. Magellan bought stock in Hanes, the panty-hose maker, and saw the value of its shares grow some...
...Carolyn Meith, the Alewife Transportation Advisory Committee's Cambridge legislative representative, said the questions whether community resistance will have any effect...