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Whereas the book by Jacqueline Mitchard was aimed at the +30, female audience, the film caters to a more mainstream public. Michelle Pfeiffer, even though constricted by unglamorous suburban trappings, still manages to strike a sexy, glamorous image. Treat Williams, although not the typical stud, has an earthy charm and chemistry with Pfeiffer, while Jonathan Jackson seems poised to join the ranks of beautiful young Hollywood actors. With this winning trio of actors and its subtle take on the poignant issue of child abduction. The Deep End of the Ocean offers a surprisingly refreshing change from the trashy options...
...department barbecues weekly over the summer, when many concentrators endure the humidity to conduct research. Otherwise students must organize their own events, a task made a little easier by the concentrators' e-mail network. The chemistry library in Converse cheers any orgo problem set session with dark wood Harvardian charm...
...success at co-opting traditional Democratic issues such as education--and boosting from 37% to 65% the number of black and Hispanic students passing key statewide tests--has helped lure women and minorities to his camp. And, in a party often at war with itself, his charm has kept social conservatives from deserting him without alienating moderates--and vice versa. No wonder Bush has victory-starved Republicans salivating. "This is being driven by a pervasive terror in the ranks of Republicans," concedes one of his outside advisers. "If we lose the White House in 2000, we'll lose another third...
...other place in the world, Hare is one of the city's most popular and prolific craftsmen. In 1998 four of his works were staged--four new works, that is--and all did well enough to make it to the U.S. And he has self-confident charm by the bucketful: posh accent; a casually elegant wardrobe created by his fashion-designer wife Nicole Farhi; and an erudite conversational manner, splashed with amusing anecdotes about Salman Rushdie and Philip Roth...
...offers the mildest demurral, and his bosses say, "Sounds like you've got a case of the Mondays." So ordinary worker ant Peter (Ron Livingston, with a suburban charm and anxiety that verge on the Hanksian) wonders how to end the day. Quit? Suicide? Or a little corporate revenge? He picks (c), which is where Office Space goes off the rails. For the first half of the film, though, Judge (King of the Hill) runs some interesting twists on workaday boredom. At its shambling best, Office Space is like a bracing break at the coffee machine. Some horrible Monday...