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Condon (Gods and Monsters) could have made a bolder, hornier film, but then it wouldn't have been true to the man and, especially, his time. The movie wants to entertain and educate, not leer, about people flummoxed by participating in a revolution they had meant only to calibrate, and at that it succeeds handsomely. Kinsey is like its hero's work: an enlightening lecture on a naughty subject, briskly delivered by a nice gent in a bow tie. --By Richard Corliss
Everett would never entertain any statistical comparisons to Balestracci. But as a leader, not even Dante could have done any better this year...
...debate on the subject; Hanson declines and Dershowitz calls him a bigot in front of a group of 200 students in a Winthrop common room. President Summers calls the divestment plan “anti-Semitic in [its] effect if not [its] intent” and refuses to entertain the idea of divestment...
...then ... defeat. Now, with the image of Bush's victory speech seared into Democrats' forebrain, the temptation to abandon all hope is almost overwhelming, especially for those who, right up to the end, refused to entertain the possibility of a second term...
...sisters bided their time watching election returns, a succession of awful pro-Bush country bands came out to entertain the crowd. One had penned a tune for the campaign...