Word: good
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...blithe spirits of Key West. Without Singh, the Truman Annex might have become "Meldorado," a pirate theme park. But if islanders appreciate having a developer as sensitive as Pritam Singh, they are also worried that he is exerting a more profound influence on the island, as an apostle of good taste in a place long known for exuberant tackiness...
...realistic. One imagines them heading for the sort of civilized divorce settlement that people with a fair amount of community property to protect generally work out. No such luck for the Roses. All kinds of good luck for moviegoers willing to follow director Danny DeVito and screenwriter Michael Leeson down an increasingly dark and comedically dangerous path. The problem is their house, symbol of everything they have struggled to achieve. Barbara is willing to forgo alimony if she can keep it. Oliver is ready to pay her almost anything if he can have it. His lawyer (nicely played by DeVito...
DeVito's transformation of a sun-splashed showplace into a haunted house is admirable, and so is his pacing. Turner is, needless to say, beautiful when she's angry -- sinuous, calculating, purring before she pounces. Douglas makes something equally good of the self-righteousness and self-pity with which some males exercise territorial imperatives. And both contrive to suggest that their warfare is a kind of perverse courtship, a form of preening designed to achieve a surrender that goes far beyond the sexual. You can take or leave the implication that all marriages (and all divorces) may have that...
...each appearance during her long day, Wattleton looked immaculate, as though she had just emerged from a beauty salon. In effect she had, for she spends a good 25 minutes before most public occasions "freshening up," as one of her aides calls it. Wattleton has a healthy dose of vanity. Her nails, makeup and hair are always just so. She maintains that grooming is part of her job, "as people make judgments about youbased on your appearance." Nearly 6 ft. tall, imperially slim and sleekly dressed, she is usually the cynosure of attention at any gathering. Harper's Bazaar named...
...unanswerable questions of children are treated with dignity and humor in Does God Have a Big Toe? (Harper & Row; $14.95). Marc Gellman, a rabbi, patiently retells Bible stories from a youthful view: Noah said to his friend, "You know, Jabal, this might be a very good time for you to take those swimming lessons you have been talking about for so long." Adam and his wife, Moses and his tablets, Joseph and his coat -- all are here with their moral testaments, made even easier to apprehend with Oscar de Mejo's eloquent landscapes of Eden and afterward...