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Mesmeric imagery and rueful wars of the sexes highlight a brilliant, idiosyncratic Midsummer Night's Dream in Minneapolis...
...Garrison Keillor has standing. Boy, does he. He is a big, weedy fellow, 6 ft. 4 in. tall, with horn-rims and a big shock of dark brown hair, snazzy in black tie and tails, red socks and galluses, and black sneakers with white stripes. When he is feeling rueful and self-mocking, which is fairly often because he is a shy man, he calls himself "America's tallest radio humorist." This, the listener is meant to understand, is the kind of hick distinction that small-town Midwesterners cherish, and Keillor is splendidly and defiantly a small-town Minnesot...
Woodbridges inactivity is particularly rueful because of the important contribution it ought to make to the Harvard campus. The Society has an inherent quality that should enable it to contribute to campus life in a great way, one that has thus far been neglected by its leadership: internationalism. Many American students at Harvard are curious about their international counterparts; the Society has made no attempt to engage them with its activities. The number of American students who have attended any Woodbridge events this year has languished in the teens. These happy few came without invitation, and were given no reason...
...traditional movie would have these princesses of the Third World teach the rich Anglos lessons in humanity as John and Flor join hearts across the border. Oh, that happens here, with dollops of the rueful, self-aware wit that is Brooks' unique gift; nobody else writes jokes with such acute ethical shading. But there's a tarantula on the angel-food cake: John's manic wife Deb (Téa Leoni). Deb is Brooks' first real villain, a character everyone in the film can reject. Leoni, investing an awful energy in her role, puts the pang in Spanglish and throws...
...knew he was destined to inherit an estate--in this case, the presidency--and didn't wish to deplete it. In fact, Jefferson, the strict constructionist, freely exercised the most sweeping powers as President. Nothing in the Constitution, for instance, permitted the Louisiana Purchase. Hamilton noted that with rueful mirth...