Word: scar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tragedy allows awed and then self-righteous absorption. Marie clings far too long to a rich, womanising slickster (Gregoire Colin as Chris) who sees a needfulness he can prise open into a raw gaping masochistic dependence. Reading faces, you might judge Isa the worse off, with chipped-tooth and scar-bifurcated eyebrow, but you realize nervewracking and nervous Marie has borne a more interior brand of wear and tear...
Aside, perhaps, from that lightning-bolt-shaped scar on his forehead, Harry Potter will seem familiar to anyone who has ever read a decent fairy tale. Harry, 11, is an orphan who lives with his aunt and uncle, Petunia and Vernon Dursley, and their son Dudley. Is it worth pointing out that the Dursleys are as dreadful as one might expect of people named Dursley--they make that step-family of Cinderella's seem merely ill-tempered by comparison--and that young Dudley is a fat, spoiled bully who keeps breaking Harry's glasses...
...shell game can't last. If he runs, Bush will have to build bridges between bitterly divided camps. Ugly fights are inevitable, which means that by the time this race is over, father and son may have something else in common: scar tissue...
...spend all of last weekend avoiding your love because you didn't think your super-square parents would approve. The wounds won't scar if you make it up to your sweetie at "Our Love Is Here to Stay," with Lynne Jackson and Mike Palter, part of the George Gershwin Centennial Celebration. Soon blue skies will be smiling at you too. Orpheum Theatre, Foxborough Common, Foxborough. 508-543-2787. 3 p.m. $26.50 students...
...quiz shows, radio's Information, Please (1938-48), hosted by Clifton Fadiman and featuring the mordant wits Fred Allen and Oscar Levant. Back then folks tuned in to meet people cleverer than they were, not more deranged; and intelligence was an attribute to flaunt, not hide like an appendix scar. Today's game shows might take their cue from another '40s radio favorite, It Pays to Be Ignorant...