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...pulp. His outward emotions change, almost as visibly as his eye blackens. But by the end, he opts not for love but for wandering. This type of movie could undercut all of the statements of modernity Leigh has spent two hours making. Johnny must continue his solitary, vagabond ways with only his sharp wit and active libibo. Like a modern-day Huck Fin, Johnny sees the skeleton that forms the basis of the human psyche, he also sees the skeletons in everyone's closet. With this knowledge and his determination, we hope he finds the meaning that he wants...
...tragically at the end of the opera, clearly depicted as a victim of her hedonistic lifestyle, Roberts' character will assert her independence from Gere and at the same time win him back. The differing moral judgments of the same lifestyle is ample testimony to opera's anachronistic qualities in modern-day liberated society...
Hard-liners have accused Yeltsin of using the new constitution to make himself into a modern-day czar. While the draft enshrines the broad provisions of the U.S. Bill of Rights and many declarative guarantees from the communist era, like the right to housing and medical care, it leaves key questions about the organization of the legislative branch to the discretion of the new parliament...
...investors from the Continent. Barclay's Bank regularly finances Washington's grain deals with Russia, not from New York but from Miami. The Germans are snapping up waterfront property along the beach and Biscayne Bay. The mysterious Munich investor Thomas Kramer even has visions of building something between a modern-day Manhattan and a reconstructed Portofino at the tip of Miami Beach...
...season brought Restic looking like a modern-day Clint Eastwood and questions about the football team. Could Restic work his magic and pull out a title? Or would the loss of star quarterback Jim Kubacki '76 hurt the team beyond repair...