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...given a thorough airing. What does the guard mean with his "Stand and unfold yourself?" When did thumb-biting stop being synonymous with giving someone the birdie? Just as Hamlet uses the Death of Gonzago as a way to find his accusatory voice, this play allows Harvard students to flesh out those suspicions they'd always been too pretentious to discuss in the open. Who hasn't thought that the comedies would have been better off as a feature presentation rather than 15 episodes with indistinguishably silly plots? Are we really supposed to take Romeo and Juliet seriously...
...Negro" singer from the 1900s. Mike returns to that home to confront its secrets. An exorcism is in order, but that task is interrupted by Mike's battle to save a leggy blonde and her daughter from a ludicrously evil duo. Alas, the novel's spirits have more flesh than the humans, who barely qualify even as bags of bones...
WASHINGTON: So what happens next? Despite the solemnity with which you'll hear them treat the forthcoming impeachment hearings, House members are set to put this constitutional process on the back burner and concentrate on the more urgent need to press the flesh in their constituencies. It's up to the hardworking aides of the House Judiciary Committee to sweat the small stuff -- like which parts of Monica Lewinsky's testimony are credible. And counsel for both sides may well go 15 rounds on how many of those 15 impeachment charges cited Monday should be investigated...
Under the bold, sensitive direction of Jonathan Demme, Winfrey's Sethe is a creature as stern as she is strong--as much oak as flesh and blood. She moves with the heaviness of someone dragging large and fatal memories behind her like a full steamer trunk. She is, as the book puts it, "iron-eyed"; her gaze is an Old Testament judgment, her love a demon that can crush those it enfolds. The actress and the character share intelligence and passion, but in many particulars Sethe is the anti-Oprah. If Sethe were a talk-show host, she would stare...
There is a perk, though, and that is that thecomputer allows the whole picture to be done in3-D. Animation has long been unparalleled in itsability to flesh out the imagined world, and makeit move. The shift from two dimensions to threemakes the fantasy more believable than everbefore. Possibly the most delightful aspect ofAntz is puzzling over whether bugs reallydo these things, or if one is confusing gradeschool Bio with popular insect mythology...