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Indeed, the seemingly unthinkable has happened. California--once big and bad and strapping--has been transformed into the object of national pity. Poor Pete Wilson! As governor, he has now lived through fires, earthquakes, droughts, floods, riots, and recessions. As Wilson's press secretary Dan Schnur said, "We've had just about all of the plagues--all except frogs and boils...
...eyes -- she knows they can too easily seduce the camera -- and she makes the audience struggle to like her characters. Her Joy Gresham, dressed dowdily and flaunting a broad Noo Yawk accent, seems at first punished into caricature. Martha in A Dangerous Woman trudges through town as an ostentatious object of pity. The actress won't do all the work; viewers must meet her halfway. With a Winger woman, it's always worth the effort. Joy grows subtly to human size -- to a humanity that grows as her body decays. And Martha is eventually illuminated with audacious grace notes...
...however, one family member who breaks out of this stagnant framework of relationships. 15-year-old Ellen (Mary Kate Schellhardt), with her blue eyeliner and frosted pink lipstick, is enjoying the process of growing up, and is often intolerant of the rest of the Grapes. Ellen's favorite object of criticism is Gilbert. Although Gilbert's face betrays the strain of keeping his family afloat, Ellen still haunts him daily with the words, "You gotta do better." And when Gilbert makes mistakes, or acts a little selfish, the whole town seems to echo her. He is even invited into...
...FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for--a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top: "Illustrate," "Be specific," etc.? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant, but they must be there...
...most accomplished and graceful of the current crop of U.S. figure skaters, had just finished a practice session for last week's national championships in Detroit, when a man approached her from behind. Wordlessly, without warning, he delivered a violent blow to her right leg with a clublike object. Some witnesses thought it was a crowbar, others a baseball bat. No one knows for sure because the assailant vanished at once as a crowd gathered around the hysterical skater. Her father carried her off in his arms like a child. She was treated at a hospital and released...