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...Goldman -- and because it was shot in Gotham?s City Hall with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani?s blessing, the movie has a burly verisimilitude. "After a few reels, though, things get goofy," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "Suddenly every room is preposterously dark; the most powerful men in town can?t afford decent light bulbs. Pacino?s performance turns crazily manic: when he gives an oration for a dead child, his wild hand gestures read like sign language for the myopic." Nostalgia is the chief feature of "City Hall", notes Corliss. "The film harkens back a decade or two, to the days when New York...
People who like and admire Bob Dole see in these moments the essence of their man. He is too decent to pretend to be someone he's not, too circumspect to slobber over someone else's baby, and plenty proud of the concrete things he has done to improve the lives of working families like the Dirkses. The people who aren't so sure they like Bob Dole see once again the National Mortician, brusque, impenetrable, embalmed by Washington, who looks like it hurts to smile...
...emotional makeup surely part Kincaid. Since she has no mother (her father is dutiful but distant; in any case men are minor planets in the author's cosmology), she reinvents herself--as did Kincaid--and makes her way in the world by allying with various men, eventually marrying a decent, not very energetic white doctor, "a man trained to heal the sick, and in this he would succeed from time to time...
Loker has become just what it was designed to be: a real student center, a place where students can meet, study, check their e-mail, and eat decent food that they can charge to their parents. Few people will just drop by Au Bon Pain or Scoops and Beans to see who's there, but you can safely expect to find people you know at Loker Commons...
...would cut inheritance and capital-gains taxes as well as income taxes for the wealthy. The legendary rationale for this kind of tax cut is that if you pump enough wealth uphill, sooner or later some of this money will trickle down to ordinary people in the form of decent-paying jobs. But this can't work when there are, as Buchanan himself says, "two economies" instead of one. Downsizing delights Wall Street, even when it means the K Mart class has to skip Christmas; and the stockbrokers all cringe when unemployment falls...