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...does go off, but the play is basically two men talking, firing elaborate insults at each other, scheming to find the perfect humiliation for slights received, the most elegant revenge. All this was catnip for the original film's director. Mankiewicz (whose older brother Herman wrote Citizen Kane) had been in movies since the early days of talking pictures, and "talkies" is a good description of his very voluble films. His Oscar-winning scripts for A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve were filled, stocked, clogged with clever badinage. Nearly 60 years later, those films are still among...
...social life. Party grants have propelled the development of a quasi-fetal social scene among the world’s most socially underprivileged animals—Harvard students—and our vital interests as students are wrapped up in their fate. We undergraduates, described as “citizen-scholars” by the UC Executive Board its Oct. 3 memorandum to Dean Pilbeam, have a right to be consulted before any decisions are made that affect our lives as students, particularly those that limit access to our most vital resource: alcohol. University Hall’s pencil-necked...
...political nature of his story fails to impress. When the mob attacks Joseph at his home, Bobby goes behind his father’s back and spontaneously volunteers for an undercover assignment, eventually becoming a cop himself. Bobby’s rise to arms implies that the ordinary citizen must take up arms against a common foe, but Gray never takes the trouble to grapple with what this means for innocent bystanders, like Bobby’s girlfriend Amada (Eva Mendes). The film’s troubling ending rams Gray’s vigilante viewpoint home. When Bobby...
Part of Vansandt's challenge as he threads through Musayyib's busy market sector is to out-sell a particularly tough JAM cell in a sector where he needs the citizen's patrols. His superiors say JAM has been threatening residents, and have even killed the entire family of a man who had worked with the Americans in the area. Braving that kind of intimidation is a lot to ask of volunteers, leaders say, but any gains made will be Iraqi gains that only they can win and hold...
While the real key to stability in the region is training and fielding Iraqi police and army forces loyal to the central government instead of their particular tribe or sect, officers say the concerned citizen militias create a surge effect, picking up some of the slack and creating a pipeline for new and better qualified recruits...