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...cast is uniformly able. Stockard Channing, as the self-denying British agent Elizabeth Hapgood, does all she can, with her crisp high-heeled pacing, to delimit the boundaries of her role, but there's something a little frustratingly soft -- in the text -- at her center. As played by David Strathairn, Kerner is more convincing as a scientist than as a squelched lover; there's something slightly too predictable -- too projectable, as Kerner the mathematician might say -- about his twitchings and jerkings when sentiment gets the better...
Fashion shows delimit a small slice of cultural space that a designer can claim and redress as personal property. The fashion press gives the designer title to the territory, and the store buyers advance the loan. Everyone, of course, is staking out real estate in the ozone. Fashion is an arbitrary and slightly irrational concept that needs all the buttressing it can get. Fashion shows not only describe a look, they perpetuate a myth and keep a fantasy airborne. A designer has to be dead sure of himself and certain of his reputation, like Armani, to take the radical step...
...Nature and other texts are replete with the political and social consequences of sociobiological theory. To call the link between sociobiology and reactionary political ideas (such as sexism) a fabrication, as Mr. Tooby does, is to ignore the proliferation of books and articles by leading sociobiologists which attempt to delimit possible forms of social organization...
...fiscal prudence, has in fact run up the largest federal deficit of any President since F.D.R., who was fighting both a depression and a world war. Although the fault is not entirely Nixon's, he heads into his second term confined by a fiscal squeeze that will sharply delimit domestic policy. So far he has issued no major requests for new initiatives from his departments to improve on his disappointing first-term domestic record. Indeed, only one instruction has gone out: prepare to tighten your belts...
...recognized a patient's right to avoid public embarrassment. It emphasized that judges should limit the scope of the inquiry in the light of "the nature of the injuries which the patient-litigant himself has brought before the court." In such cases, it suggested, patients should attempt to "delimit" the nature of their mental distress in advance, so that courts can bar questions that delve unnecessarily into "specific intimate factual circumstances." On that basis, Lifschutz decided to talk...