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...summertime experiences are more excruciating than climbing into a parked car that has been broiling under the hot sun. Now growing numbers of American motorists are discovering that they can help their cars play it cool by giving them some shades: a cardboard sun shield that fits neatly inside the windshield. Sales of the $4 Auto Shade have surged from $2 million in 1985 to $6 million in just the first six months of this year...
...Archer is radiant and fogproof. With a lesser talent, this miscalculation could have been fatal. After all, when one of Eric Ambler's down-at-the-heels protagonists makes a dodgy border crossing, the tension is palpable. Readers know that if the policeman in the greasy uniform were a shade more intelligent, he would realize that the hero's accent is bogus, his passport fake. An author who sees himself in boardroom costume, however, seems unlikely to grasp the concepts of weary connivance that nourish the standard thriller...
...vote was a slim 5 to 4. Burger, who originally sided with the majority in Roe, dissented and indicated that the time had come to "review" the controversial 1973 ruling. It was not entirely clear whether Burger would vote to throw out Roe or, more likely, just shade it at the margins to uphold some state laws that make it more difficult for women to obtain abortions. The same uncertainty surrounds Justice O'Connor, who also dissented in Thornburgh but did not call for the outright reversal of Roe. Scalia, a strong Catholic, is believed to be a surer vote...
...family's summer house in Maine. Time takes big jumps, and each episode finds the Vincents older. The girls begin dating, smoking and drinking, and the boys start sneaking off for marijuana nightcaps. Dad grows increasingly predictable ("nothing more normal than for him to be standing in the shade at a family picnic holding a can of beer"), and then Mother is dead...
...rather than acting. I don't want to be constricted and limited." But prettiness is only part of what the camera sees. Her formidable will is just as evident as those big eyes, and it is the contrast, the steel- butterfly effect, that is fascinating. She is, possibly, a shade too composed and cerebral in her thoroughly adult second film, the delightful period comedy % A Room with a View. Her character, a properly brought-up young person who allows herself to become engaged to a twit, is supposed to be slightly silly, but Bonham Carter does not quite succeed...