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...Pressler, an occasionally clueless South Dakotan, was a favorite target. Dole once came down to the Senate well during a vote and said out loud, so everyone could hear, "Don't know which way to go on this one. How did Pressler vote?" Even the clerks would start to laugh. But then it would be Dole who would do nine events in South Dakota for Pressler in a single day later that summer. And when Dole was publicly warned by right-wing groups not to make an endorsement in Virginia's ugly Senate primary last spring, incumbent Warner went...
What a jolly little laugh we all had the first time that one was used! It takes a person who's running for Congress, we said, to make pot smoking sound like a required laboratory assignment in the honors section of Microbiology...
...course, like anyone with any insight at all into life, Holofcener can't resist making us laugh as well as groan. She skillfully juxtaposes Amelia's and Laura's lives to great effect: Amelia, clearly lonely and with too much time on her hands, babbles into Laura's answering machine about how dirty her kitchen sponge is, while Frank and Laura approach snogging mode...
...technique, had to persuade society that they were something other, better, more glamorous than they really were. In doing so, she became the epitome of couture elegance and city-girl pluck. The Colbert heroine walked the earth in sensible shoes and met each adversity with a throaty, musical laugh. Sophisticated but not stuffy, a superior creature who never condescended, she proved the maxim that a woman should be, first and foremost, a lady. Her characters flummoxed leading men into stammering or spouting purple prose by wielding the comeback, the put-down, the come-on, all in one sprightly barrage. Cool...
Cheung plays first the jealous girlfriend, then the knowing party, with great timing and verve. The parade of villains are appropriately naughty, in simplistic, signature ways: one has a beard, another has what seems a prerecorded Evil Laugh...