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...This is eerily reminiscent of last summer and last month," Atlanta mayor Bill Campbell told a press conference. "We clearly believe we are dealing with a deranged killer, but one who is very clever." Investigators were somewhat more guarded. "We're not ruling out the possibility of a serial bomber," an FBI spokesman told TIME, "but it's just too early to tell...
While it may be tempting to dissect "Hotel de Love" as a commentary on love in the time of non-commitment, viewers would be better off simply enjoying the movie for its clever brand of comedy and succumbing to the irrational romantic within...
...thank God that such clever people are willing to rent their brainpower to perplexed institutions like Harvard University...
...reader ventures through territory like this, the question arises, "Yes, it's clever, but what's the point?" With Leithauser's novel, that question is precisely not the point. The author, who has spent time in Iceland and the Faroes, invented Freeland not to write a political parable but because the more he thought of this imagined place, the more it fascinated him. Its texture is rich and believable. Early in his career the President bankrupted the small nation to build an old folks' home at the base of a big mountain. Now, "mountain-viewing" is local slang for dying...
...ensuing violence. Shifting the blame for Hamlet's sanguinary campaign of vengeance to the execution of King Hamlet's behest allows Branagh to play one of the more sane versions of the Dane seen in the last 20 years. His Hamlet is not moping and melancholy, but rather a clever and witty theater buff...