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...clear here. Though I believe the lack of council involvement in politics reveals the uglier flaw of the institution (its lack of power), I believe the council still works best when it works without politics. We had no more power when we were political than we do now. Back then we just used to divert everyone's attention from that fact by inflaming people on either side of a controversial issue whose national or international outcome we had no ability to affect...
Those of us who love Woody Allen fall into two camps: those who love Woody the auteur and those who love Woody the stuttering pasty human. As a fanatic member of the latter squadron this film critic acknowledges that what she finds to be the biggest flaw of Celebrity may instead be read by some filmgoers as an overdue relief: dear Woody is nowhere to be seen...
Seduction goes wrong in signature Woody fashion when the dame Lee picks up from the catwalk, Supermodel, claims that her only flaw is that she is "poly-morphously perverse." After dinner, they head off to the nightclub El Flamingo. Sadly, their sexy dancing session at the club is interrupted when Supermodel sneezes and realizes that she is in dire need of echinacea. The two have to search New York in the middle of the night for the wonder drug, which, need-less to say, gets in the way of Lee and Supermodel's going home together. Luckily, however, another club...
...experienced hackers can usually hack into just about any server. This is a scary notion, because no matter how heavily protected one is against break-ins to the server, one can never be completely sure whether a hacker will run some program on the system that will expose a flaw in security...
...major flaw in this otherwise gorgeous performance was the orchestra, whose members were generally out of sync; their playing lacked the passion and conviction of the actors, and the lively score could have benefitted from more musical contrast. The brass section in particular seemed adept at blasting out the wrong notes altogether. Fortunately, the top-notch singing was often dazzling enough to make the orchestra sound more subdued by comparison...