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Atlas' attempts to show that he is not cowed by his subject sometimes take a prim, censorious tone. He mentions the feminists "who were offended, justifiably, by the way he [Bellow] depicted women in his novels." That "justifiably" skates over an extremely complex and contentious issue. Can anyone who knows Bellow's fiction, as Atlas manifestly does, really believe that the work would have been better without its politically incorrect characters...
...Despite its obvious stake in the debate, the Times took the high road, running a prim article about Bush's slip: "While waiting to speak, he leaned over to his running mate, Dick Cheney, and used an obscenity to describe a New York Times correspondent, Adam Clymer, who was in the crowd...
...drama of Jesus' story is that he is God and man; his body is passionately at odds with his soul. But many viewers prefer prim Bible stories (hence folks who deplored Harvey Keitel's Brooklynite Judas in The Last Temptation of Christ don't mind Hebrew Apostles who sound like British lords). Sisto gives them an Al Gore-like Jesus, who stiffly recites scriptural lines and whose chief means of showing emotion is shouting. He may laugh and cry, but so rigidly and unnaturally you end up hoping for a reappearance by the comparatively interesting Satan--played by both...
...minimal; the set design of Kris Kelly, while functional, pushes neither the actors nor the space in any profound direction. Much more interesting is the costume-design of Naeemah White-Peppers and Valerie DeCharette '02; from George's relaxed academia, clad in earth tones and corduroy, to Honey's prim and proper coordinated outfit or Nick's slick, ambitious look, each costume says something insightful about its respective character...
...It’s the classic tale of true love versus love of the Game. For us hockey fans, both sentiments peak in the spring, when les fleurs d’amour are in bloom and Lord Stanley’s Cup is prim and prime. Unfortunately, picking one usually means throwing away the other...