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...received with glad cries, and these still reverberated when his short story collection, A Model World, appeared. And then? Hmmm, let's see. The white whale's been done. Down the Mississippi on a raft? That too. Okay, lots of plots out there; maybe something about a dwarf in Germany who beats a drum...
Reporting in the Middle Kingdom often involves logistical and bureaucratic challenges, she says, "but it's almost always worth the trouble. The social and economic changes that are taking place there are so sweeping as to dwarf all others I see elsewhere in this dynamic part of the world." And, in pursuit of a big story, there are few places to which Burton won't fly, drive -- or hobble...
...finally, The Crimson's efforts to dwarf the original issue concerning the Bell curve Theory suggests some dangerous, alterior motive. I have yet to see The Crimson attack the real "bigotry" at work--that of Murray and Herrnstein who support the legitimization of racism. Kristen Clarks...
...certainly loves her daughter Charlotte (Alejandra Podesta). She is beguiled by Charlotte's grace, her easy imperiousness, her ease with languages, her virtuosity at the piano. And she refuses to accept what is evident to all: that Charlotte, now on the cusp of womanhood, is a dwarf. The townspeople pretend to ignore it. But one fellow, the aging stranger Ludovico D'Andrea (Marcello Mastroianni), sees Charlotte's disability as a sweet eccentricity, like a birthmark or an overbite. Ludovico has been courting Dona Leonor in his fashion, and someday he will be a doting stepfather to the girl. He will...
...whose world-weary charisma so comfortably bears every man's crimes and charms. But finally it is the film's images that seize the memory. You won't soon forget the bleached radiance of a seaside wedding reception, the shadows caressing Dona Leonor on her midnight raid to smash dwarf statues on a nearby lawn, the face of a girl who wonders if she is the pawn of a lady's possessiveness or the beneficiary of a gentleman's genial lust...