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...quality (a face just shy of puberty, a smile that, in his first TV spot, was used to sell milk), barely rouged the rougher aspects of his characters. Toby is a decent kid, but his stabs at '50s punkdom rasp the nerves. Arnie is so aware of his doom that when he tells a new friend, "I could go at any time," it sounds like a come-on; yet his rampages drive his saintly brother (Johnny Depp) to violence. And Hank could be just a bad kid trapped in a boy-angel's body. But DiCaprio could...
...terms to stand independently of Shakespeare's play. But those readers who know Hamlet will find Updike's novel an echo chamber of beguiling allusions. "You protest too much," her husband-to-be tells young Gertrude, a sentiment she will repeat during her life onstage. And the doom awaiting Updike's people lends their deeds a tragic cast...
...mortal man, going about his mortal business, is bitten by a bug--a special, powerful bug--and it changes his life. Only the bug that bit Stan Lee isn't radioactive; it's interactive. With the print-comics industry besieged by villains (the rapacious Sega! the Pokemon league of doom!), the co-creator of the Hulk, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four and Parker's alter ego, Spider-Man, is taking comics online. (Insert "Web"-slinging pun here...
...worst disasters erred on the side of caution. We could afford to be wrong, and we were. But instead of universal rejoicing among those who were fully prepared and those who weren't, the joking has already started--"We told you so." Perhaps. But had we "doom and gloomers" been right, the panic and tears of others wouldn't have been the object of my glee. MILTON JOHN KLEIM JR. Citrus Heights, Calif...
...fiercely to the first primary date and will go to the polls Feb. 1 this year, has a wildly disproportionate influence on national politics. Many candidates spent the better part of 1999 funneling their campaign funding and energy into New Hampshire; a poor showing in the Granite State can doom a campaign...