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...tone of the novel is not vindictive. The Robber Bride is not the self-indulgence of a man-hater run amok. Rather it seeks to exploit and break down, sometimes clumsily, the myths surrounding the first generation of the women's movement. Atwood's tongue-in-cheek allusions enable her to wittily explore the complexities of gender relations in this generation. At times, however, her acuity yields to carelessness. This is most notable in her depiction of Charis, and her airy speculations on numerology; Charis relates that seven is "two threes and a one, which [she] prefers because threes...
...nettlesome case for right-to-lifers, they explain, and they want to demonstrate that their remedy is redemptive even in extremis. There is no point in screaming, because you cannot be heard. There is no point in fighting, because your captors may flinch but will meticulously turn the other cheek, trying to shame you with sanctimony. And there is no point in reasoning, because their minds are made up about what God wants and the necessity of following his will...
...French are feeling fine and feisty too; it's amazing how a hit movie can restore the color to one's cheek. Toubon may have fudged the numbers a bit (since Jurassic Park opened in France only in October, whereas The Visitors has been playing since February), but the Poire comedy is a genuine phenomenon, earning a record-smashing $70 million. "We have no dinosaurs," Poire said smilingly on opening night. What The Visitors has is a solid farce premise (a 12th century knight and his servant are magically stranded in today's French suburbs), a toilet-bowl sense...
Astutely, Lichtenstein realized that the halftone dots of a printed comic strip could be enlarged along with the rest of the image, but at that stage he didn't know how to do it evenly: he used stencils that smudged, so the big areas of neck and cheek came out with a random sort of acne. They now look touchingly handmade, which is not to their disadvantage, and their sense of formal rigor has lasted well...
...Parris said, she has found the humorous side of the incident. Herpurpose in writing the "tough-in-cheek" letter wassimply to be funny, she said...