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...American Pie; now and then Hollywood can serve puff pastry, and this one is on the tasty side. Moore, who went attractively brunet for the role, delicately shows Jamie's roiling emotions. When pop-star status deserts her, she might become a movie star, or something more precious: a fine actress...
This Figaro, though, is a team effort, and the supporting cast merits recognition, including the precious portrayal of Marcellina, Figaro’s middle-aged pursuer-turned-long-lost-mother, by Emily Ludmir...
Last month, Harvard Right to Life dispensed small pins called “precious feet,” and abortion activists cringed. I must mention here that I am not one to mince words; thus if my refusal to employ the euphemism “pro-choice” offends you—too bad. When it comes to being “PC,” I’m not. The abortion rights faction no doubt will argue that the employment of “precious feet” pins (which depict, appropriately, a pair of infant feet...
...allows that the percentage of annual abortions performed for reasons of rape, incest, or medical complications is anywhere between .02 percent and 7 percent depending on the sources used, but both of these numbers leave over 90 percent of abortions being performed for other reasons. The “precious feet” pins are also a reminder to the public, then, that intrinsic to virtue is acceptance of the consequences of one’s actions...
...Precious feet” are symbolic of the advocacy of pro-lifers for the unborn. Furthermore, they serve to remind the public of the inevitable development of a fetus into a fully formed human infant. Finally, they represent a striking challenge to all women to truly demonstrate their power to choose by selecting virtue and intellectual honesty over a cowardly retreat from shame and adversity...