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...dressed in a man's suit for a comic photo," who possesses "a great damp loaf of a body." His faithless wife is "thin, moist, hot . . . in another time, another sex, she would have been a Genghis Khan." After they marry, her "desire reversed to detestation like a rubber glove turned inside out." But as Quoyle heads to Newfoundland and fumbles through life as a newspaperman, the author eases up and allows an occasional smile...
...Incidentally, which qualifies as the greater World Series natural disaster: San Francisco falling apart in 1989, or Bill Buckner's rumbling glove...
...instead of render a harmonious picture of 19th-century society, for the camera darts about in a peripatetic ad nauseum of rapid-fire montage as if it were affixed to the neck of a hummingbird. Again and again, its strategy is to alight on one item after another--a glove, a calling card, a painting, a bauble--until it seems that Martin is just showing off his assemblage of period pieces. What's more, color is splashed onto the screen willy-nilly and fade-ins and fade-outs occur with little respect for the coherence of the movie. The cinematography...
...offense, meanwhile, banged out eight runs, with hits by, among others, Bob Marshall of our legal department, library clerk Ann McCarthy and associate editor Sophfronia Scott Gregory. "We won?" asked Tsufura's co- techie Kevin Kelly from the bench as a Voice batter hit the final out into Chambers' glove. "Yes!" came the reply from a jubilant...
Both men have well-oiled promo machines, with Pavarotti's the more unbridled. His white handkerchief is as familiar as Michael Jackson's glove. But as Beverly Sills, an acute observer of the opera scene, says, "Forget the hype. Once they get out there, they have to produce, or the hype will just vanish...