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...critic in me says, some of the plot twists emerge from the House of Astonishing Coincidences. And every character is designed either to point Lily in the right direction (the women) or to dramatize the rural bigotry she's trying to escape (the white men). I wish T. Ray, well played by Bettany, had been given some spark of ambiguity, some inner life beyond his meanness; and that June - her arms folded in disapproval, like a stern nun concealing a ruler in her sleeves - didn't have to endure the standard redemption process of being enlightened, converted, broken. But this...
There are two kinds of food lovers: the elitists and the egalitarians. The first are the people who go on to become food critics and restaurant reviewers. They are the food snobs who know what they like and are unrelenting in their opinions. The egalitarians, on the other hand, are the ones who wax nostalgic about steaming bowls of tripe prepared by their mother in the winter, or the chicken feet they had at dim sum with their grandparents. For them, whether or not they like a food depends much more on the company and memories surrounding the dish than...
...than to get his number and give him a call. She could know him without actually getting to know him.In the information age—or the iPod age—or the indie age, or whatever, music is self-defense. In his New York Times review, film critic A. O. Scott observed, “The tunes that play alongside their nocturnal adventure express longing, sadness, anxiety and joy with more intensity than they can muster themselves.” Sounds pretty good to me. Maybe I’ll put those tunes on my playlist.Jillian J. Goodman...
...Were your critic's disparaging remarks about American wines [Oct. 6] just sour grapes? Jack Dinsdale, MILTON KEYNES, ENGLAND...
Calling himself a critic of the Bush administration’s policies, Dershowitz said the next administration should be more involved in the peace process...