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When a team's up against a hot goaltender like Ferguson, however, relying on skill alone often fails...
...With bat and ball, skill, timing, determination and courage, Laxman, Harbajan and Dravid had changed the mood of a nation...
...freak show. Decked out in a black tuxedo, ordinary save for a flamboyant red coat, Disney proceeds to intimidate the portly, oft-timid Presley in a lengthy, riveting sequence of interplay. Price, for a good while, is sublime, manipulating Presley’s feeble mind with fine skill, shifting between master and mollifier as he holds forth on his personal philosophies. Johnson, his shoulders submissively hunched forward and his voice high and breathy, counters by convincingly transforming himself into a half-attentive, partly-comprehending receptacle for the ideas that the worldly Cosmo spews...
Friends who wrote letters or met with the committee said they stressed Summers' managerial skill at the Treasury Department, where he oversaw a staff of 16,000 people--comparable, they said, to the administrative demands of his new position...
Given such unsavory protagonists, Aiding and Abetting doesn't generate an abundance of rooting interest in its outcome. But Spark, 83, has lost none of her skill and verve in portraying flamboyantly wicked people behaving according to "a morality devoid of ethics or civil law." Like Evelyn Waugh, she employs her characters' untroubled consciences as an implicit sign of their irredeemable awfulness. And this engaging game of rat and louse concludes with a bit of poetic justice that is ghastly and richly appropriate. --By Paul Gray