Word: potental
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...Thursday night, I felt sure that the gloriously underaged sophomores of Quincy House would be treated to some potent potables at the dinner in their honor. Sure enough, there along with Dean Archie C. Epps III were several bottles of sherry and aperitifs. But no, my inquiry about their availbility to students was heartily rejected. So what's the deal, Fred? Where are those responsible happy hours? I'm waiting, snifter in hand. --Dan Altman...
...stage, John Dexter's sumptuously stylized production transformed tabloid headlines into a potent truism: the heart sees what it sees. Onscreen, the opera singer's gender is never in question; his 5 o'clock shadow gives him away to everyone but the diplomat. Jeremy Irons tries manfully, and John Lone womanfully, to give real life to the characters, but the close-ups defeat them. So do some unlikely plot points: the defendant and his accuser are put alone to undress and wrestle in a police wagon; the diplomat daubs himself as Madama Butterfly before a rapt audience -- of French convicts...
...Luck Club," the new film based on the bestselling novel by Amy Tan, is a stirring film that celebrates the mother-daughter bond, and is a rarity among American films for its almost exclusively Asian cast. So why, then, after seeing this beautiful and emotionally potent film, did I feel so ashamed for being an Asian-American...
...potent aura of success that subsequently surrounded her was regarded a vital ingredient in the quest to retool the New Yorker, a necessary precondition for change. Brown's appointment by publisher Si Newhouse was a determined attempt to bring the publication back into the black. Billionaire publishers are not unaffected by precipitous dips in circulation...
...stage, John Dexter's sumptuously stylized production transformed tabloid headlines into a potent truism: that the heart sees what it sees. Onscreen, the opera singer's gender is never in question; his 5 o'clock shadow gives him away to everyone but the diplomat. Jeremy Irons tries manfully, and John Lone womanfully, to give real life to the characters, but the close-ups defeat them. So do some unlikely plot points: the defendant and his accuser are put alone to undress and wrestle in a police wagon; the diplomat daubs himself as Madama Butterfly before a rapt audience -- of French...