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Gomes succeeds in criticizing a world which he portrays with great love. His scenes are richly detailed, especially the pre-marriage ceremonies and a neighbor's worries about being evicted from her home. However, the actual story is not as coherent as it should be. The frequent discussion of Nundo, an old revolutionary friend of Vicente, seems puzzling since no one explains who he is. When the audience finally sees him, Nundo abandons Vicente in a huge tizzy over the moral dilemma of his country's political health. His position is never resolved...
...More women are seeing movies. They are, according to recent surveys, the fastest-growing segment of frequent ticket buyers (up 19% in two years). An adult woman on a date is more likely to choose the movie, and when not dating is more likely to see a film with other women than a man is with other men. Women represent upwards of 60% of the video market, which is where Hollywood makes its real money: video brings in 2 1/2 times as much as the box office does. If there is a large female audience--plus a healthy portion...
...many schools, there are frequent mailings from the study abroad offices to advertise programs financially affiliated with the school. But since Harvard does not sponsor any of its own study abroad programs, it does not advertise such possibilities...
...that time, Robin has given more than 600 press interviews, plowed through two 10-city book tours, appeared twice on Oprah and co-conducted financial seminars around North America. Before the book was written, she hadn't been on an airplane in 20 years. Now she has more frequent-flyer miles than a Boeing 727. Though her publisher books her into classy hotels when she is on the road, she buys food at a local market and takes it to her room. The result, reports her publisher, Viking Penguin, is "the cheapest book tour on record...
...provides him with adventures that analogize, rather than slavishly imitate, those of his literary model. This figure, called Henri Fortin, is throughout aware of his resemblance to Hugo's original. He sees movie versions of the story, and people keep telling him that his physical strength, moral fortitude and frequent bad luck remind them of Valjean. He wouldn't know. He's illiterate, a retired boxing champion who drives a moving...