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...Vera Drake is a cheerful, frumpy little lady bustling about 1950s London, humming happily to herself. She visits the sick. She chats up the lonely. She dispenses cups of tea. And from time to time she helps young women who have got themselves "in trouble." That ugly word, abortion, never crosses her lips. And she never takes money for her illegal services...
This is, to put it mildly, unlikely material from which to fashion a near great movie. But writer-director Mike Leigh's Vera Drake is just such a film. He's famously a realist (Life Is Sweet, Naked, Secrets & Lies) and never more so than in this film. He simply recounts the story with unblinking objectivity. The almost comic cluelessness of Vera's family, the phlegmatic spirit of the policemen processing her case, the attitudes of her patients, ranging from the hysterical to the cool--they are all there. Yet there's nothing forced or movieish in Leigh's treatment...
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...dozens of interviews in seven states last week, TIME found that while many students are discussing the draft, few say they will decide their vote on the issue. "The draft is just being used as a tool by Democrats to get Bush," says Kirsten Steffey, a senior at Drake University in Iowa who plans to vote for Kerry. "It's just a distraction from issues I'm more concerned about." Hope as Democrats might, an Election Day boost for Kerry remains, like the draft itself, merely hypothetical. --By John Cloud. With reporting by Paige Bowers/ Atlanta, James Carney/Washington, Sarah Sturmon...
...when it's time for a drink, well, Chicago knows how to tend bar. You could visit the historic Berghoff on West Adams Street and the Coq d'Or in the Drake Hotel, the first two bars to tap a legal keg after Prohibition ended. But if you have time to leave the business district, head up to West Randolph's up-and-coming restaurant row to see how Gen X yuppies indulge themselves. You will also find them at the spacey Ghost Bar upstairs from Nine, Michael Morton and Scott DeGraff's new restaurant...