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...because in these movies to dance is to love - and how expertly she can keep up with him. Astaire's singing, Rogers' silent re-acting and the pair's dance coax each bit of drama and humor out of the lyric and music. What follows is my attempt to render complex emotions and glorious movement in prose; it's just the Cliff Notes to a blithe masterpiece. So rent or buy the "Top Hat" VHS. And get the album, "Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers at RKO," two CDs of great music and fabulous vibes. Right now. I'll wait...
This does not render Windtalkers worthless, though it does pretty much ignore code talking--how it was invented and how it worked. It exists as a largely unexamined premise, while the picture pursues the more routinely uplifting theme of male bonding across fairly standard barriers of ignorance and prejudice...
...Yasser Arafat, meanwhile, is trying desperately to get back in the game. While Ariel Sharon's siege may have failed to render the Palestinian leader "irrelevant," Arafat's newfound freedom may, ironically, have done the job. Arafat denounced the Petah Tikvah bombing, as he has done in response to a number of recent attacks inside Israel - PA leaders even refer to these attacks as "terrorist operations." But that has done nothing to stop a relentless stream of Palestinian youths from turning themselves into human bombs...
When Iraq accepted the terms of the 1991 Gulf War cease-fire, it agreed to "destroy, or render harmless," all its weapons of mass destruction. The last U.N. weapons inspectors left Iraq in December 1998, after obstruction by officials there rendered their work pointless. It is generally agreed that Saddam Hussein has not been behaving himself in their absence. The U.N. has collected reams of color satellite photos showing an unmistakable boom in reconstruction of Iraqi sites, some of which were weapons facilities in the past. "You can see hundreds of new roofs in these photos," says Hans Blix...
...play set in an unfamiliar time and filled with irrational, sometimes cartoonish, and traditionally unsympathetic characters, has the potential to alienate and confuse an audience. Accordingly, he sees the challenge he feels he has to ride up to meet: to bridge the gulf between audience and story, to render the fantastic experiences of his characters immediate, accessible, and effecting...