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...mood or plot of the scene: Cynthia cannot believe that Hortense, who is black, is her daughter and calls her just as Hortense is wearing a white facial mask -- highlighting her misguided assumptions. In the final scene, Maurice's peaceful, blue shirt, set against an innocent turquoise mush of wallpaper, sets one up to be surprised at his suddenly unrestrained response to the family's conflicts...
...what would Dole do instead? Well, that's the problem. Dole is heavy on critique but light on prescription; his wisdom rarely rises beyond a mush of content-free bromides. "I will pursue a strategy for success," he pledged. "We must define our interests and assume full responsibility to protect and promote [them] ... We will stand by our allies and nurture coalitions. We will keep our promises...
Fortunately, it's not the acting, or the directing, or even the script, as Holofcener and her strong cast give a flowing, excellent treatment of material that in other hands might turn to life-in-the-nineties mush for the brain. You won't find here a goofy, artificial circle of friends steeped in pop-culture, who spout nihilistic aphorisms or slacker meditations on life. Laura and Frank get angry, make up, and get angry again over petty things: it is awkward, it doesn't make sense, and, usually, it stays that way, thanks to Holofcener's careful...
...Life to Live? The story of Vitali took almost as much time to tell as Vitali took to perform. While the soap opera content of the Games has been growing ever since ABC's Roone Arledge invented "Up Close and Personal" for the 1972 Games, this year the mush quotient is out of control. The Dick Enberg Moment has become the tail wagging the dog. The spot on fencer Peter Westbrook prevailing over his humble beginnings ran four minutes, and we saw only three seconds of Westbrook actually jousting...
...journalism has come the decline of participatory democracy. The media no longer understand the ultimate flexibility of government or the wellspring of its power. Not that the individual journalists working for the major concerns are themselves evil, but they are trapped in a system that perpetuates mind mush as news. They are assigned stories that matter not in the least to the viewers or readers, that have zero impact on their daily lives. The news only serves to maintain the status quo, in which we are glued to the television while the advertising profits of media magnates skyrocket...