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...clever, too. "The idea for the film," says Wong, "comes from the promise the Chinese government gave to the Hong Kong people: 50 years of no change" in its political and economic systems after the 1997 handover by Great Britain. "So 2046 is the last year of that promise. And I think, is there anything that is so unchanged in people's lives? When we fall in love we wonder: Will they change? Will I change? How can we make this moment last forever? So we start with that...
...engineer's wit?he compares his "va-va-vavoomy" wife to an Aeroflot plane and means it as a compliment?Carnegie is the closest thing this shifting novel has to a protagonist. (Jen divides the narration among her five characters, each offering rejoinders in separate paragraphs. It's a clever effect, even if it sometimes feels like a staged reading of a new play that is still a revision away from completion.) Carnegie, along with Lizzy and precocious nine-year-old Wendy, is quick to fall under Lan's spell. They love her cooking and hang on Lan's bitter...
...fantasy masterpiece, but Smith has enough talent and imagination to remake it into something entirely his own. For one thing, it's funny. Nearly every page has some bit of business, like when Fone's hat spontaneously combusts upon catching Thorn preparing for a bath. Smith also puts together clever set pieces, such as the Great Cow Race, where Phoney introduces a "mystery cow" - actually Smiley in a costume - convincing the locals to go for this sucker bet over the favorite: Gran'ma Ben(!). The final race turns into a raucously funny slapstick worthy of a classic Chuck Jones cartoon...
...travel company, is offering an all-inclusive eight-day travel "adventure" this month in the footsteps of Robert Langdon, the book's protagonist, visiting sites in France, England and Scotland. Cost: $2,900 to $3,800, including airfare, tel: (1-603) 357 5033. "A lot of this is simply clever entrepreneurialism," says Stuart Beattie, Rosslyn's project director. Not that he intends to miss the rush: joining the Rosslyn Chapel Trust, the association which in the novel guards the secret of the Holy Grail, is open to all, Beattie says - for a donation of $9, that...
...with the couple's three children all at school, Marie Valenta went to university to study primary school teaching, finishing each year in the top 1% of her class. More recently, she learned bookkeeping to make herself useful in the family's public relations business. She was clever? "Marie's a great believer in Edison's line that genius is 99% perspiration," says Valenta. "She was a super-organized person." Which is why he was quick to notice when she began behaving oddly a few years ago - leaving the front door open when she left the house, "vagueing out" during...