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...glib maxim that Floridians like to bandy is "hurricanes are the price we pay for living in paradise." But for a good part of the past couple years, paradise has begun to feel like purgatory...
...life abounds, enthralls, and intoxicates.And besides, “The Line of Beauty” deserves more than the niche-market label of “gay fiction.” Sadly, Hollinghurst’s novels to date remain largely unknown to American readers because of glib classifications that put his works such as “The Swimming-Pool Library” and “The Folding Star” on the “special interest” shelf of gay and lesbian lit. True, all his novels feature gay sexuality and romance. And squeamish readers...
...psychotropic drugs, if you listen to Cruise—on The Today Show. Cruise insisted that Lauer didn’t know the history of psychiatry, but that he did. Lauer said that antidepressants had helped some of his friends. Cruise accused Lauer of being “glib.” The viewing public chalked Cruise’s antics up to his infatuation with Scientology. I agreed, congratulating myself on my educated rationality...
...appropriate to their role. Sarah E. Stein ’08 plays Domina, Hero’s overbearing mother, with appropriately overblown hauteur. The sleazy profligacy of Lycus, the slave-owner (embodied by Justin V. Rodriguez ’07) contrasts well with the wistfully innocent Hero and the glib Pseudolus. Each individual character’s excesses are played to the fullest in their songs. Here, Sondheim’s score is as snappy and melodic as ever...
...hour comedy-drama about a group of college friends from the '60s who reunite for some soul searching in the '80s. The resemblance to The Big Chill is impossible to miss: characters reminisce about antiwar rallies and ponder the implications of "getting caught up in the mainstream." Despite its glib predictability, the series boasts a likable cast, headed by Jane Kaczmarek and Daniel Stern, and at least a veneer of seriousness missing from most other summer entries...