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Most of the people couldn't be prettier. The ladies' dresses are glamorously revealing (this is one of the most bosom-obsessed movies since Russ Meyer retired). There's a nice use of the Anglo-African actors Lester and Carmen Ejogo; Branagh pairs them off with white co-stars. And in the director's familiar long takes, some of the dance numbers do work up a pleasing tension...
...PlayStation 2 backlash is brewing. The machines that gamers brought back from Japan failed to wow the influential hobbyist magazines, largely because the games that came with them--titles like Ridge Racer V and Street Fighter Ex3--have not improved as exponentially as the graphics. "It's like a prettier tablecloth, but the food's just the same," sighs Tom Rosso, editor of games magazine Next Generation...
Besides, how about the children whose parents neglect them so they can lavish their affection on a prettier sibling? The girls whom no one asks to the prom? The Elephant Man indentured to the owner of a freak show? The bulimic Fijian women? The Marilyn Monroes sucked into a spiritually empty world that leads to suffering and death? The spoiled favorites who end up incapable of contentment? All those corrupted and destroyed by their own charms? Could that be the route to the contemplation of the "form of the good...
...where Einstein got it. Just before he died, Newton remarked, "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy, playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before...
...from their genetic parents. So infertility is bound to increase, and with it the demand for IVF. Add to this the demand from gay men and women and from those with private eugenic motives--ranging from not wanting to pass on inherited disease to wanting taller or smarter or prettier children--and sexless reproduction is bound to spread...