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...outside of the Beanpot, a Boston tradition worthy of network attention, it got no air time (AT) whatsoever apart from the occasional highlight reel...
Tragedy cures dysfunction. So made-for-TV movies teach us. Death and disease, addiction, abuse and abduction -- shattering though these may be at first, all eventually cause fictional (or, more likely, fictionalized) families to draw closer together, to discover new strengths in the final reel's final analysis...
...have a happy monarch and family, I think we should skip a generation and wait for William." The succession issue lies at the heart of the monarchy; for the institution to survive, it must be stable. If the Waleses pursue other romantic interests, as is likely, the Windsors may reel into even thornier problems than they faced...
...which is perceptibly stronger when Morrissey declares lightly: "I'd like to drop my trousers to the Queen,") or the Wodehouse-like phrases ("you're the bee's knees"), but also the sly double meanings which continually poke fun at British culture. "Two lumps, please," Morrissey declares soulfully, in "Reel Around the Fountain," referring to a cup of tea and a sexual partner at the same time...
...laconic, nothing watery about it. It does not rush or eddy or -- heaven forfend -- gurgle. It runs steady and clear, and beneath its surface you sense the darting shadows of powerful emotions -- big fish, as it were, which the writer shrewdly plays but never deigns to reel all the way in. The art for this old man, a college professor who did not begin to write until he retired from teaching, was all in the writerly casting of his lines, not in the melodrama of the catch...