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Despite the many engrossing performances, thefilm fails to overcome its structural problems.Although tongue-in-cheek humor counters much ofits sentimentality, the movie ultimatelyincorporates too many looming issues for it toescape cliche. At times the script just tries abit too hard: in an attempt to make Sonnydifferent from all the other...
Three months later, Clinton was ahead in the polls but losing traction on health care. Top advisers noticed that he sounded confused on the stump, skipping back and forth between reform plans without clarifying which one he was for. Health-care groups with various agendas bombarded Clinton's Little Rock...
"It's a cliche but exposure creates composure," Fish said.
"It's a cliche but exposure creates composure," Fish said.
The reigning cliche of the day is that in order to love others one must first learn to love oneself. This formulation -- love thyself, then thy neighbor -- is a license for unremitting self-indulgence, because the quest for self-love is endless. By the time you have finally learned to...