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Many authors choose movies in which they originally identified with a central character. This is true for Meg Wolitzer's piece on Teresa Wright's role as Charlie in Shadow of a Doubt. Wolitzer related to the character's youthful naivete and fascination with her mysterious Uncle Charlie. Looking back, Wolitzer sees that the question of otherness explored by director Alfred Hitchcock, in the elder Charlie, captivated both Wright's Charlie and herself-- otherness in terms of age and gender...
...Again, I've never met or treated him, but he appears to be trying to escape from the shadow of a father who gave him a tremendous head start. Why does he need his name on everything? It could be that he's trying to say, "I'm not Fred's boy. I'm the guy who owns the airplane, the yacht, the building. My company is myself." These are what we call narcissistic extensions...
...Bush persuaded Congress last year to pass most of his kinder, gentler legislation untouched, Quayle's Council on Competitiveness is spending much of this year making sure that the new environmental and health laws are as beneficial to business as possible. California Democrat Henry Waxman calls the council a "shadow government." Senator Albert Gore believes that the mysterious body allows Bush to pose as an environmentalist long enough "to justify a television commercial. Then, behind the scenes, the ((council)) guts...
...play. Carter convinces the audience that her character has deeper motives than lust. She displays a commanding presence, especially when leading the women in an oath of chastity; "I will withhold all rights of access or entrance..." Occasionally, though, the glitz and energy of the production over-shadow her character. Playing the straight woman among vivid caricatures and dancers is a daunting task...
Nothing personal against Yeltsin here. He's been a champion of democracy. But no one can be sure about Yeltsin's successors. The other republics don't want to break free of their decades- or centuries-old bonds to Moscow only to live in the shadow of a nuclear-armed Russia. In the end, they may even settle for something less than total sovereignty, ceding what they see as their nuclear rights to a higher and larger authority, if only to be sure that Russia does the same thing...