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...these two large refugee communities didn't have a great deal in common and Ristaino doesn't pretend they did. Her point is that there is something uniquely awful about the experience of having to begin all over again and the way in which the various individuals and communities coped with the challenge played a key part in shaping Shanghai's foreign enclaves. For all its faults, the city's polyglot culture created a kind of tolerance; Germans of all political persuasions, she says, liked to spend an afternoon in the war years wandering through the Jewish ghetto, because...
Ever in search of needy, complaisant women, Will even answers phones for an Amnesty International telethon as a way of chatting up female callers. Eventually Will observes that single moms may be the most desperate demographic of all. So he devises a new scam. Pretending to be a single dad (which, naturally, entails having a pretend child), he joins S.P.A.T. (Single Parents, Alone Together) and gets less and more than he bargained for. There's only one attractive woman to hit on, but she introduces him, via a picnic, to her best pal's son Marcus (a marvelously uncute Nicholas...
...only to pretend that this may be a "controversial" movie, worrisome to a jittery America. Can we live with its doomsday scenario? Of course we can. And hum a few bars of "Seems Like Old Times" while we're at it. There are murkier, scarier matters to bring to light - intelligently, we may hope and pray...
Lucas may pretend that the Star Wars movies are meant to enlighten us about the degeneration of democracies into dictatorships, but, as you wrote, it is closer to the truth that "the movie extends the franchise's target audience from 12-year-old boys (the action stuff) to 15-year-old girls (the smoochy scenes)." What these movies are about is filling seats and selling Star Wars merchandise. PETER DALEY Purcellville...
...It’s become clear we can’t deal with cases with no corroborating evidence,” Harris said. “It’s silly to pretend...