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...since this book reads much more like a novel than did Lightman's 1993 book Einstein's Dreams, a series of fictional meditations on time. It seems probable that Good Benito is, like many first novels, fairly autobiographical, since the book tells the story of a physicist, Bennett Lang, who grows up in Memphis, Tennessee and then comes to the East Coast, while Lightman grew up in Memphis and teaches physics at M.I.T. But the real reason the book feels so much like a first novel is that Good Benito is clumsily written, trying to cover too much ground...
...this worthwhile adventure. It's 1905, somewhere in the American West, and Daniel Hackett (Nick Stahl) is chafing against life on his family's farm. "I hate this farm! It's just a dried-up, miserable piece of land!" he yells to his father, Jonas (Stephen Lang, looking like he just wandered in from a Biblical movie...
...Tall Tale" is a surprisingly good live-action Disney movie. It incorporates several different themes, and its characters are fairly complex and wellplayed. The movie's greatest weakness is the father-son story line. The portrayal of Daniel's relationship with his father is strained (mostly by Lang's poor acting) and cliched. You may want to come in late and miss the first 20 minutes, which lay out the frame-work for the movie but fail to lend new life to an old theme...
Into the void stepped three second- echelon pretenders: Jospin, 57; party leader Henri Emmanuelli, 49; and flamboyant former Culture Minister Jack Lang, 55. Though he was the most popular, Lang bowed out at the last minute, leaving the austere Jospin to fight it out with the more hard-line, proletarian Emmanuelli...
...from the left. A month ago, the polls showed outgoing European Commission President Jacques Delors, a Socialist, well out in front. But Delors' decision not to run left the Socialists without a credible candidate. None of the announced hopefuls--former Education Minister Lionel Jospin, 57; former Culture Minister Jack Lang, 55; and party leader Henri Emmanuelli, 49--has a broad national following. As things stand, the Socialists might well be eliminated in the first stage of the two-round presidential contest on April...