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...hire, Nixon's cornerman, Jack Brennan (Kevin Bacon), has as lifetime loyalty to his boss. Since the resignation, he has become a fretful coach and father figure to Nixon, encouraging him to be strong, insisting an interview be stopped at the first sign of Nixon's vulnerability. All these plot elements have some basis in fact. Morgan's one fanciful addition is a phone call Nixon makes to Frost, spilling out his guts, fears and resentments. In this scene above all others, Langella leeches into the president's anxieties, and summons much of the angry power of the private...
...finds that his heart "had grown strange during its long exile, blind and savage in the darkness to which it had been condemned, and its appetites had grown powerful and perverse." Also it had gotten hairy. Rowling doesn't tell us the why of the hair, and no plot points turn on it; it's just there - one of those creepy, evocative details that participate in a logic deeper and stranger than that of plot and moral. (See pictures of Harry Potter's fans around the world...
...Darwin to outmaneuver King Carney.Sound like fun? Well, there’s even more to this nearly three-hour-long movie. Obviously Drover and Lady Ashley fall in love and then get torn apart, only to end up together again, but there’s also an overarching plot involving efforts to “assimilate” mixed children of Aboriginals and whites as well as a climactic raid on Darwin by the Japanese.Clearly, “Australia” is an ambitious movie, and it soars and stirs when operating on a grand scale. Luhrmann, whose past credits...
...than your average retirement-policy wonk. An economist who moved this year from the University of Notre Dame to the New School for Social Research in New York City, she has railed for years against the decline of the traditional pension. She recently wrote a book subtitled The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them; the less contentious main title is When I'm Sixty-Four...
...This time, all hell broke loose. Her proposal caught the attention of talk-radio juggernaut Rush Limbaugh, and over the next few weeks Limbaugh hammered on Ghilarducci's idea as a Democratic plot to kill the 401(k). "McCain has gotta tie Obama to these people," he said on the air. Republican presidential candidate John McCain did try, but only perfunctorily. It didn't help him much on Election...