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Acted with subtle ferocity, directed with expansive tenderness, Like Water for Chocolate is a story of passion in bondage and death in a fire storm of desire too long withheld. Viewers need not feel so constrained; they can enjoy the emotional splendor, gasp at the ghosts, cry with as much good cause as Tita. By comparison with this banquet of feelings, most other movies are trail...
Carolyn Rendell's direction teases the humor out of the play, sparing neither a gasp nor a gawk to illustrate the miserable cultural inadequacy of the American elite. She also knows how to drill her cast: the delivery is snappy, maintaining pace in what might otherwise degenerate into a random sequence of incidents. Rendell marshalls the complicated restaurant scenes brilliantly. Above all, she has an excellent sense of comic timing, and milks the text for all (and more than) it's worth...
With a little under 10 minutes left in the contest, Harvard staged a last gasp charge...
...LOST HIS VOICE BUT WON JUST ABOUT EVERYthing else. On Sunday morning, speaking in Cincinnati, Bill Clinton could manage only 21 seconds of half whisper, half gasp; even on Tuesday night, making his victory speech, he still sounded strained and hoarse. It hardly mattered. By then the voters had spoken, and the election that briefly looked close had become anything...
...reverse his meteoric rise in the polls. Several tracking surveys showed his support at 16%, down a bit from around 20% but still more than enough to make Perot's wild-card effect on the campaign both important and unpredictable. The Texan is putting on a last-gasp TV advertising blitz like none ever seen before. His campaign has spent just under $60 million so far, and that figure will grow sharply in the final week...