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...documentary style what became of the lads, even providing a violent death. That's an odd exclamation point to a Bennett sentence that should end in ellipsis. It's as if he was afraid his students in the audience were too dull to get the point. Bennett can be forgiven the polemic, for he has brought to brilliant life a dozen original characters: four adults (including Frances de la Tour as a teacher who says history is simply "centuries of male ineptitude" and "women behind them, with a bucket") and the eight boys, each smartly defined, each bright, each needy...
...semi-reluctantly drives Nancy to Pacifica in order to spy on Ben, a man who writes obsessive love letters to a woman he thinks lives at Nancy's apartment. If the structure seems a bit amateurish - it has a few too many talky interludes and lucky coincidences - all is forgiven by the deep characterization. Simon and Nancy feel real, with complex, sympathetic personalities that make them compelling in spite of their self-absorption...
...forgiven, upon your arrival at the Burj Al Arab hotel, if you can't believe you're in the Middle East, that forsaken corner of the world that seems doomed to endless war, terrorism and zealotry. The chauffeur of your Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph will collect you at Dubai's palm-studded airport, transport you past the shimmering skyscrapers and finally pull up to a resort that feels a lot more like Las Vegas than Arab sheikdom. Here, in an awesome, sail-shaped edifice as tall as the Eiffel Tower, obsequious staff will conduct you to one of the Burj...
...seems to have accepted the fiction that Pakistan's profligate nuclear proliferation over the past decade was all the work of a single rogue scientist who supposedly managed to export the country's nuclear weapons technology unbeknownst to the military - and who, in turn, appears to have also been forgiven after appearing on TV in Pakistan and saying he was really, really sorry. Pakistan, of course, had pretty much invented the Taliban as its own proxy in Afghanistan, and remains, by all accounts, the sanctuary from which Mullah Omar and his men operate. But as long...
With that, all was forgiven...