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...heard of subtlety? One of the many instances occurs when Mickey comes to save Mallory. The entire episode is packaged as a sitcom fully equipped with fake, plastic decor creating a surreal aura reinforced by track laughter. This seems acceptable enough. Yet Stone takes what could have been a clever idea and pretentiously exploits it beyond meaning. The modern-day knight arrives enrobed in his bloody butcher shop apron carrying 50 pounds of raw meat. His scantily-clad damsel in distress comes down the stairs, their eyes meet and he is determined to help her escape the wiles...
...your own, any questions, any comments, send them in. I won't promise that they'll get printed, or even get read, but if they do appear, you'll receive some fabulous free gift. Of course, you will receive full credit in the column, unless your letter is really clever, in which case I will incorporate it in full into the column and take all the credit...
...result, the Crimson must play a game of "bits' with the other league teams. In a league of equals, the champions will likely be those who are merely a little bit more clever, a little bit more dedicated, a little bit more aggressive, etc. It will be a race of fractions rather than whole numbers...
Unfortunately, Walt's story is not over. By the time he gets to the part about owning a Chicago nightclub and advising an over-the-hill Dizzy Dean on career options, Auster's flamboyant inventiveness seems to be spinning its wheels. His clever parable about innocence and its loss comes down to a bumpy landing...
...willingness to negotiate as a prelude to caving in. "They're afraid," he said. "We may just send the same bill up there over and over and force them to vote against it again and again. Let's see how eager they are to be tagged soft on crime." Clever politics? Maybe. Good policy? Hardly. There's still time to do it right, still time to pass a bill the President can finally accurately tout as the "biggest, toughest and smartest" ever...