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...whether security experts and television crews could move into the stadium in time to complete their preparations. Above all, last week's test would conquer or confirm worldwide suspicions that Athens was blowing its deadline for the Games. The roof was already three months behind schedule, another dismal detail in a building program plagued by chronic delays and charges of incompetence. Anxious to avoid a p.r. fiasco, authorities limited coverage to Greek state TV. The Deputy Culture Minister nervously smashed a bottle of red wine on the base of the arch and looked skyward. The gods of Olympus answered...
Cole's artwork matches the unpretentious ambitions of the story. She draws her characters with an absolute minimum of detail. They are all essentially sexless blobs with singular attributes - glasses or animal ears - to distinguish between them. The polished grade-school style emphasizes the immaturity of the characters in a clever way. Everything is rendered as outlines, with no shading, like everyone is getting blasted with white light. Cole's relaxed, confident pace develops "Never Ending Summer" into a neat little view on the vulnerabilities of human interrelations...
...many ministerial staffers. In costing its programs, it does not have all the information it would like. When Opposition leader Mark Latham blundered on superannuation math, an army of bureaucrats was there to give the Treasurer the correct numbers. If Oppositions are accused of holding back on policy detail, one reason could be that federal governments can call on some 130,000 public servants to mull over those programs. As well, being out of the loop on intelligence and defense has made it difficult for Latham to appear knowledgeable about national security...
...small, startling bursts. Sanaa Lathan is winning and funny as Walter's headstrong sister. Former Cosby Show star Phylicia Rashad, dumpy and nearly unrecognizable as Walter's mother, breaks through the cliches to create an unsentimental portrait of moral strength in the midst of squalor. But nearly every detail (from the mellow jazz musical interludes to a 10-year-old boy's wince in pain as his mama pulls a comb through his hair) seems exactly right in Kenny Leon's finely wrought production...
...accounts the roundtable should have been over by now. The four singer-songwriters participating in the interview have been sitting for over an hour in Mather’s Senior Common Room, discussing in meticulous detail their experiences as participants in Harvard’s folk rock community. The humidity is forcing the air to an ungodly high temperature, but the conversation is showing little sign of wearing down...