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...Close Shave, which would make a fine companion piece to Babe, is a dazzly melodrama about criminal woolgathering and an adorable lamb named Sean (as in shorn). Its blithe originality suggests that Park could make terrific Wallace-and-Gromit films forever. But he already has a feature-length project on a new subject. Park is right to think big. In a year or two, he could be holding an Oscar for best picture...
...That is in part because an unavoidable cost of the simplicity of a single-rate tax is lower tax collections from the wealthy, and that revenue must be recouped somewhere. In their plan, and in Forbes', the nonrich would probably lose in other ways as well. Because most businesses, shorn of special tax breaks, would face higher effective tax rates, they would probably pass along that cost as higher consumer prices. Denied a tax break for employer-provided health insurance, companies would either curtail those benefits or reduce wages. And under Forbes' plan, there would be no relief from...
...Shorn of its outward trappings, the adventure might have been woven a thousand years ago under the caliphate of Baghdad: back-corridors palace intrigue; the mysterious wounding at a festival; a headlong flight across the desert by the ruler's beloved daughters and his sons-in-law, one of them the land's chief armorer; their reception by a friendly monarch who shelters them in a palace. Finally, the betrayed ruler's son, who has wormed his way to grand vizier, leads a pursuit attempting to retrieve the fugitives. In a fury he denounces them before the neighboring king...
...movie drags a bit towards the end, as allthe loose ends are neatly tied up, and one wonderswhether they couldn't perhaps be shorn off, likeso many strands of platinum hair. But all in all,"Tank Girl" is a terrific romp. Visually, it's ascool as anything. The acting is spirited. There isa heavenly soundtrack with great songs by L7,Belly and Tank Girl's own Holey mother, CourtneyLove. The glory of "Tank Girl" is that it doesn'ttake itself too seriously. Swagger in with a stashof smokes and a paper bagged beverage (don't wastewater) and get tanked...
...date atop the Empire State Building is motivated by no more than a postcoital fear of rushing into something. Not much suspense in that. Some of us religious and romantic skeptics have always thought this was a loathsomely pious and sentimental tale, but in a way we were wrong. Shorn of those qualities, it just dries up and blows away...