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...Object of My Affection walks the tightrope on a number of boundary lines--hanging dangerously between comedy and melodrama, intelligence and triteness, and between politically correct and glaring offensive. But it never finds its "zone." The movie seems unnecessarily forced and cautious. "Laugh at this!" it tells you. "Cry now!" it yells. In between these climactic urges for audience emotion, The Object of My Affection stomps all over thin ice. Though mindfully tries for fluffy appeal, it ends up cracking under the weight of its cautiousness...
...some reason everyone thought it was a good thing. The conservatives were pleased because in their eyes he was the cause of the regime's demise (they were absolutely right). The radicals were happy because in their opinion he was an obstacle to the republics' independence and too cautious in enacting economic reforms. (They too were correct.) This man with the stain on his forehead attempted simultaneously to contain and transform the country, to destroy and reconstruct, right on the spot. One can be Hercules and clean the Augean stable. One can be Atlas and hold up the heavenly vault...
...report, then, that on his new album, Pilgrim (Reprise), Clapton sounds weaker than he has in years. It's a compromised, blues-tinged pop-rock album, with drippy melodies and cautious, manicured guitar solos. What it reminds one of is this: on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, amid the high-fashion shops and trendy eateries, there's a House of Blues restaurant/nightclub that's designed to look like a rural, rusted tin shack. Frankly, it looks stupid and out of place. Listening to Pilgrim, one gets the same feeling--there's no room for blues roughness on this...
...leaders who have the drive and decisiveness to hold the system together. Admired from Tokyo to Washington for his brains, integrity and ability to cut through swaths of red tape to get a job done, Zhu is considered the antithesis of the cautious, faceless, communist bureaucrat. "He behaves more like the CEO of an international corporation than a politician," says John Wadsworth Jr., chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia. "He's very 'American...
...issue and domestic pressure Iraqi trade created in America before the Gulf War. In short, Reversing Relations suggests that normalizing relations requires as many different approaches as there are nations, and that the lessons learned from one situation should only be applied to others in the broadest, most cautious sense...