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...never has been funny. Or even human. In the previous movie version, as in this one (and I'll bet in the play itself) all the actresses strike comedic poses. They sashay about, rolling their eyes, pouting their lips, making big gestures and talking really fast. It's essentially an antique theatrical manner, the falsity of which the movie camera, dialing in for its close-ups (and even its two shots) exposes as relentlessly now as it did 69 years ago. No one ever gets to act - and this is a cast rich in good actresses - if by acting...
There are other problems, too. You can enjoy fast-track dialogue in television shows like Murphy Brown, because a well-written sitcom requires only 22 minutes of your time, not enough to make you weary of the rattling pace. But a movie, running a couple of hours, requires more breathing room - time to savor characters, time to let the knotty situations grow more enticingly tangled, time to enjoy a laugh if any of them are on offer. The constant hammering and yammering of this movie drives you out of involvement with its women. And then there's that perfume girl...
...fact, it was once Indonesia that showed Asia the way out of the poorhouse. In 1980, when Deng Xiaoping was first nudging China toward the free market, Indonesia's per capita GDP was more than double China's. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Indonesia's fast-growing manufacturing sector was a magnet for foreign investment, and rural development schemes were so successful that the nation became self-sufficient in rice for the first time. The government even had ambitions to build commercial jets and cars. But since the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Indonesia has been virtually marching in place...
...University’s counter-offer was a generous offer.”“Harvard never wants to lose its good young senior faculty, and certainly not its excellent women,” Rosenblum said.While Martin said she enjoyed Harvard’s fast pace early in her career, Martin said that she is looking forward to settling down in Madison.“It’s still a fantastic department,” she said of the political science program at Wisconsin, “but it still doesn’t have that sense...
School shootings are among the most shocking acts of violence in modern America, and yet the one question asked by every parent and survivor--Why?--has rarely been systematically approached. Fast, a professor of social work at Yeshiva University, examines five case studies from 1974 to 1999--spending most of his time on 1999's Columbine massacre--hoping to figure out what drives young perpetrators to mass murder. Unfortunately, the motives are as varied as they are tragic: while Fast faults easy access to powerful firearms as a constant factor, sexual abuse, mental illness, broken homes and social isolation have...