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...manages to tweak the stereotypical labels of homosexuality without really dislodging them-from limp hand-gestures and crossed legs to extreme neatness of dress and the aforementioned dancing. Its solution isn't to disprove the stereotypes but to make light of them and show that hey, they're no big deal; the whole point is that none of this should be such a big deal, but is made to be. There's no edge, no grit: it's the sanitized, homogenized Hollywood comic vision of a Greenleaf, Indiana, learning to accept gays, if not to be perfectly politically correct about...
...tradition of J.M. Synge. His macabre, wildly funny and over-the-top tragicomedies are slightly absurdist, set in remote parts of rural Ireland and peopled with comic grotesques--or literal grotesques, like the title character in Cripple, whom a young actor, Ruaidhri Conroy, plays with a convulsive total body limp of hideous and breathtaking precipitousness...
Playing with a limp, Hogan still won: six more majors, three in 1953 when he took the Masters, U.S. Open and British Open. His mystique was further enhanced by the 1967 Masters, when he shot a record 30 on the back nine. In the par-3 tourney before this year's Masters, Ernie Els found himself in a group with Gary Player and Sam Snead. When Els asked Player how he should address the great Snead, Player replied, "Sam will be fine. If we were playing with Ben Hogan, though, you'd call him Mr. Hogan...
...lifeboat. These critics are arguing more loudly than ever that the US-Mir program is not a science program at all, but a transparent tool of foreign policy designed to help the Russian space program through an enormously difficult period of political and economic instability." As Mir continues to limp around the Earth, NASA and the Russian Space Agency remain confident the repairs will be made and that Mir will continue to serve as a valuable scientific platform into the next century. Whether it does now depends in large part on convincing Congress that the station remains a safe...
Drabinsky, 47, a stocky man with a thick head of hair and a giant limp (a remnant of childhood polio), grew up in a middle-class Jewish family in Toronto, and abandoned a law career to build the Cineplex Odeon movie-theater chain (from which he was ousted in a corporate coup). He is well known, and sometimes disliked, for his outsize ego and strong hand in the creative process. "If you're respected, it's a collaboration," he says. "If there's no respect...