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...less) evolves into a touching yet refreshingly quirky family drama, as the "star" finds himself becoming part of a veritable clan made up of flawed but endearing members of the seamy industry and headed by Burt Reynolds' would-be-visionary filmmaker. Director Paul Anderson displays a remarkable eye and ear for the fluffy vacuousness and conspicuously awful taste of Disco era, while paying obviously sincere cinematic homage to some of the greatest directors who emerged from this period...
Certainly Delbanco is conscious of the mechanics of his prose--quite literally, in fact. Ballard twice upbraids other characters for improper use of gerunds. Like Ballard, Delbanco has an ear for "pretty mots all in a row," and obviously takes care to produce affecting sentences. Unfortunately, his sometimes clever phrases usually detract from the overall quality of the work. Entire paragraphs are sometimes included just for the sake of one pun. Some sentences read like Delbanco took a thesaurus and looked up a longer synonym for any word under six letters...
LISTEN UP Inexpensive antibiotics like amoxicillin may clear up kids' ear infections just as well as pricier ones...
...Jones' attempt at damage control. If a faux pas has been committed, it certainly wasn't made by the Dallas Morning News. STUART WILK, Managing Editor Dallas Morning News Dallas TIME's trashing of the Miami Herald as a "shell of its former self" is a chomp on the ear. Sure, it's a different newspaper than it was in 1984. Yet since then the Herald has nine times picked off a Pulitzer, a prize supposedly indicative of quality. Probably no region in America sees more demographic upheaval than Miami does, and the Herald addresses it up-front and openly...
...would appreciate the amount of notice given by retired army general Lev Rokhlin when he said there would be a "rehearsal" on Feb. 23 -- a gathering of his pro-military political movement "to see whether enough force has been accumulated to throw the regime out on its ear...