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...think it's much of a spoiler to say that this wee chap (played by Peter Dinklage) eventually gets his comeuppance. It is, after all, the business of farce to restore order to radically disordered situations. The fun arises as we helplessly witness the mad logic by which, step by tiny step, chaos asserts its dominion over normalcy. Take that naked fellow on the roof. Until today, he was a perfectly normal lawyer, a trifle nervous about meeting his fianc?e's family, but steadying himself by taking what he thought was a Valium. Not his fault that he grabbed...
...Slim Truth Re Steve Rushin's essay "How Friends Make You Fat" [Aug. 13]: If it's true that friends make you fat, then Rushin failed to mention how friends make you drunk, how friends make you stupid and how friends make you lazy. Same logic, different situations. Americans need to wake up and take responsibility for themselves and their actions. We should let our friends own their own problems. Teresa J. Black, Mount Vernon, Illinois
...Britain, though they were focused merely on acquiring the brand. Qianjiang, instead, which turns out 1.2 million scooters a year in China, saw value in buying - and relaunching - Benelli's design and production. That would give them a foothold in the European market, and the move had an industrial logic: unlike Japan three decades earlier, China still lags well behind the Western motor industry in know-how and design, which means the Chinese saw the small Italian firm as a vehicle for the improvement of Qianjiang's own products back in China. Dai Wei, Benelli's export manager...
...body. Hmm: Who's got the McGwire ball? Why, that would be me. Who's got the Bonds ball? Uh, me again! I can't hit all these homers, but isn't that kind of cool? That's the warped logic that gets me through...
...papered with pieces of the mystery, then scrutinizes them to find a meaning, is a 10-1/2min. tour de force, silent except for the briefest phone conversation. It puts Thomas in the position of a movie director, editing the film he's shot, seeking to impose narrative logic on shuffled images. He is also the viewer of an Antonioni film, who is willing to follow a mysterious story where it leads him while hoping against hope it might be resolved. At any rate, Thomas is no passive pawn of his own weak will. He's a smart, resourceful detective...