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Though many critics have attempted to find in the play a Christian morality pageant as Isabelle must choose between eternal life and her brother's fate. Shakespeare is working beyond those narrow confines. He focuses instead on Justice in the abstract with all its permutations and elasticity--be it the law of God or of man. Isabelle's refusal to yield to Angelo's desires condemns her brother to death and even in the context of 17th-century Christianity, it comes off as little more than brutality, and Angelo's subsequent breach of his promise, as he orders Claudio...
There was the time, for instance, when Jaclyn was shot full of heroin and did not even know it, the time the three beautiful detectives all went killer-hunting on the ski slopes at Vail - all those wildly implausible climaxes that framed the weekly beauty pageant, shoot-'em-up farce and national phenomenon known as Charlie's Angels. "And we're going to decide right now," says Bosley (David Doyle), the den father who romps but never flirts with the Angels, "that it has all been worth it. Every damn minute...
...past 160 years, multitudes have lined the banks of the Thames to witness "The Race." For the spectators, this regatta is more than just a sporting event--it is an annual pageant. And instead of freezing in a cold football stadium on a November weekend, they can bask in the warmth of a beautiful summer Sunday afternoon...
Tipped off by another competitor, a female official at the Miss U.S.A. Pageant in Biloxi, Miss., hauled Deborah Fountain, 25, Miss New York State, backstage and unceremoniously yanked down the top of her swimsuit. Gads! It turned out that Deborah had added a little, er, pomp to her 35-23-35 circumstance. Explaining that she had lost 15 lbs. after the recent death of her younger brother, Miss New York admitted that she had padded the suit's bra with foam. When the strategy bounced back, Miss U.S.A. organizers expelled her from the competition. Fountain countered that some...
This makes for a splendid premise, and a dramatic dilemma. Except for a few oafishly drawn media sharpies, everyone in Romero's Paisley pageant is so nice that no true conflict arises. The movie begins in a splash of delirious lyricism-King William (Ed Harris), naked, birching himself clean in a sylvan lake before mounting his trusty motorsteed-then bogs down in 145 minutes of psychological verismo. The writer-director wants to present rounded, sympathetic characters but never allows them to develop beyond the caricatures in Reel 1. Romero, whose early films displayed the carnographic brio...