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...plot of Bye Bye Verdi is just too ponderous. There's little quick repartee in the show and sappy lyrics that normally propel Puddinggoers to a night of hilarity...
...flew in front of their car. The car was driven by a Belgian woman (Andrea Ferreol) who survives the crash, only to have her right leg amputated by the zoo's sadistic veterinarian. Before her other leg is amputated as well, Ferreol manages to seduce both the brothers and propel the picture into a series of more perplexing problems...
...potential to serve as a responsible voice for the student community in the affairs of the College. It might play a role in the current review of the tenure system, guaranteeing that student concerns to improve the quality of teaching have proper representation. The council might help propel a review of the Core Curriculum, which many students charge does not meet its stated purpose of teaching the methodologies of the disciplines. But such an expansion would require a fundamental reevaluation of the council, a recharter that would render it an organ of the faculty and administrative community rather than simply...
...Wall Street, however, today's victories always make way for tomorrow's doubts. Will passing 2000 propel the Dow to still greater heights? Or will the rise run out of momentum now that the magic goal has been reached? (Students of stock-market history recall all too well that after the Dow passed 1000, it stalled for a decade before it cracked 1100.) And perhaps most important of all, why is the market so high when the economy continues to be so lackluster...
...Werewolf displays a classic Landis weakness. Almost every one of the film's creative elements, from characters to special effects, shows a degree of thought and attention to detail most youth comedies do without. Yet all the effort--clever dialogue, gruesome special effects, expertly choreographed car crashes--exists to propel an idea that is, well, dumb. Landis made a werewolf movie that is nothing more than a werewolf movie; a pity, because it could have conveyed more profound sentiments than "Yikes!" Landis said he got the idea in 1969, when while traveling through Yugoslavia, he saw a ritual peasant burial...