Word: deja
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...Hughes (Knopf; 208 pages; $23), Malcolm chronicles how generations of feminist writers have reviled Hughes for abandoning Plath and for tampering with and even destroying her work. (Hughes' reputation has not been helped by the fact that the woman for whom he left Plath, in a macabre deja vu, also gassed herself to death...
...deja vu all over again...
...cunning variations on meeting cute. A young man approaches a young woman seated at a restaurant table. Every time he or she says something clumsy or frosty a bell rings (ding!), the actors freeze and the process ratchets back a step. Movie-wise playgoers with a sense of deja vu will wonder if this isn't Groundhog Day all over again. Well, worry not about Ives' originality or his consistency. Sure Thing was first seen in 1988, five years before the Bill Murray comedy. Further, all six of the Timing pieces are ingenious retakes on the same theme...
...procession a la "Aladdin" 's "Friend Like Me." After ranging from a Russian babushka to Barbra Streisand, he settles down as the matronly, English accented Euphegenia Doubtfire, and the movie's triumph is that Williams is convincing in this role. While it is still rather odd that Miranda experiences deja vu only at the film's outset, and the children never suspect him, the complete transformation that Williams undergoes makes it much easier to suspend disbelief...
...biggest hiss went to Pat Buchanan, the second biggest to Ross Perot; a dog wearing a "Barkin for Harkin" sandwich board got an arf (former Harkin aides were present). The eeriest reverse deja-vu moment came when the camera caught Begala outside a hotel doing his drop-dead Perot imitation to abc's Mark Halperin's decent Al Gore, a preview of the matchup the night before on Larry King Live. The deepest groan sounded when, on-screen, campaign chairman (now U.S. Trade Representative) Mickey Kantor, in his power tie and suspenders, enters a room full of jeans...