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...things from Mr. Holland: the connection between Bach's Minuet in G Major and the '60s hit Lover's Concerto, how a white man can teach natural rhythm to a black athlete, the sign-language symbol for asshole. But mostly they will learn that films avoid the problems they pretend to confront. This one is a 2-hr. 20-min. homecoming rally for a musical Mr. Chips...
Newt Gingrich had a favorite game when he was growing up in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania. His pal Dennis Yantz would pretend to beat him up and leave him crumpled on the curb. "When a car would pull up to see what was wrong," Yantz recalls, "Newt would jump up and scream 'SURPRISE!' We would do this over and over again." For some reason, Yantz says, Newt always wanted to be the one who played dead...
...solve the problem of arms decommissioning. At the same time, London and Dublin will hold preliminary consultations to prepare for full, all-party talks by late February. This may seem like a fudge, and that is what some are calling it. "I see no purpose whatsoever in trying to pretend difficulties and difference do not exist," said Bruton. "They do exist." But, he added, the initiative was a mechanism aimed at "overcoming and transcending those difficulties...
...gratia, but it is now slumming with the rest of them. Ratings, ratings, ratings: Di's up and Charles is down. This week they may well capture our interest, but in a few months they could just as easily be yesterday's amusement--and even more amusing if they pretend to have any moral authority, as a King and Queen should...
...candles are lit in the winter dusk, and we look at one another, the old faces and some new ones, and silently toast the Good Life, which is here before us. Enjoy the animal fats and to hell with apologies. No need to defend our opinions or pretend to be young and brilliant. We still have our faculties, and the food still tastes good...