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...staid, clean, classy. Andrew Jackson's portrait was the delicate centerpiece for the balanced, elegant currency...
...farm animals. In a tightly contested congressional race taking place in a rural district, the challenger just might dredge up one of the incumbent's high school classmates who, still embittered by some perceived slight in 11th grade, is willing to go to the local newspaper with an unflattering portrait of what the now august Congressman was like at 17: "Why, we used to say he would have shown up at the junior prom with a sheep if he'd been able to find one that could do the twist...
...stormy water. After two years of preproduction, Columbia and Schepisi were unable to agree on a script. No one's talking, but Schepisi was apparently in favor of the faithful-to-the-book version turned in by LAURA JONES, who has adapted several books for film, including Portrait of a Lady and A Thousand Acres. Columbia, scared off by the book's less romantic aspects--the main character is an overweight lummox who moves to bleakest Newfoundland--wanted a more conventional love story. Both Travolta's and Columbia's reps say they're committed to the film. They only need...
...very good debut novel,it does not hold up next to Calvino's later work.The characters are thin. Chapter nine is anespecially egregious error: Here Calvinointroduces a new character, has him pedanticallyexplain the morality of the situation and thendrops him. But the book survives. It remains amoving portrait of the confusion and surreality ofwartime and of a little boy lost. If, ultimately,it is more interesting as an artifact of Calvino'syouth, that does not detract from its merit as anovel...
...Board says, "Jamaicans love their music. You will not stop hearing that reggae bass beat from the moment you set foot in Jamaica until you get back on the airplane to go home." Of the many reggae artists to come out of Jamaica, Bob Marley rules at home. His portrait hangs on every wall, his music is everywhere. He is a Rasta patron saint. The mix of joy and despair in his music appropriately captures the essence of the island...