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...technology; a cunning, daring criminal managing always to stay just an infuriating half step ahead of his pursuer; a final confrontation that begins at a large, celebratory public occasion, proceeds to vertiginous grapplings along the edge of a big-city high-rise and ends with justice done by the narrowest, scariest of margins...
...although the Crimson fell by the narrowest of margins to the Big Green, it massacred Yale, 7-0, earlier this spring...
...clear that the GOP's platform and candidates are not exactly a recipe for success. If they lose the White House in November, though, it is important to note that America is rejecting not conservatism but an administration that embodies the narrowest of right-wing principles without the vision or courage even to defend those adequately. We've read your lips, George, and it's pretty clear that Ann Richards was right when she said you were born with a silver foot in your mouth...
Burton knows that moviegoers, just like the Penguin, need their oversize playthings. So he and production designer Bo Welch provided toys for the kids. The new-model Batmobile can get ultraslim (fast!) and slip through the narrowest crevice. The Penguin's parasol becomes an Umbrella-Copter, spiriting him out of the trouble he loves to make. At the end he sends his commando squadron of penguins to destroy the city: tuxedoed birds wearing embossed shields, tiny helmets and missiles with candy-cane stripes ( it is Christmas) on their backs. Some of the penguins were real, some were robot puppets, some...
...Returns could mark a happy beginning for Hollywood -- not because it might make a mint but because it dispenses with realism and aspires to animation, to the freedom of idea and image found in the best feature-length cartoons. Most directors think pictures have to be anchored in the narrowest form of reality: the one that Hollywood has presented since the dawn of sound 65 years ago. Burton, once an animator at Disney, understands that to go deeper, you must fly higher, to liberation from plot into poetry. Here he's done it. This Batman soars...