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Center ice at the Red Army rink on Leningradsky Prospekt in Moscow is hallowed ground in the history of Soviet athletics. Players nurtured there in the dogma of the perfect slap shot have won 32 world hockey championships and formed the core of eight Olympic gold medal teams. But economic hard times along with the departure of star players for lucrative contracts in the West have forced the Ministry of Defense, which oversees the team, to redeploy forces. At a game at the Red Army rink last week, the star performer was not a skater but a bear. A dancing...
...felt really good out there," Israel said. "I've never really felt as if I've handled the puck better than I did tonight, and I was trapping almost every slap shot that came my way. Such control of myself and my game...
...perils of womanhood that Daniel must now face are humorous if not entirely original; though we expect and are provided with the typical griping about high heels, the treatment he doles out to a would-be mugger is one of the film's better moments. Williams' slap-stick style of switching identities, while more strained, is also funny, and even the over-worked puns (e.g. "I'm my own man now") have their charm...
...This slap-stick atmosphere, however, proves incompatible when the film chooses to shift gears, focusing on the serious problems of divorce. While Sally Field is largely convincing as a somewhat frustrated, struggling career woman, the "real-life" interactions between Daniel and Miranda seem stiff and unrealistic. And no tangible rapport is established between Daniel and his beloved children--they may profess to love him, but all seem equally fond of thehandsome, stereotypical yuppie Stu, a purposelyone-dimensional character. The relationshipbetween Daniel/Mrs. Doubtfire and Stu seems overlystrained given that Daniel's main motivation forthe charade is to see his kids...
...friend of mine and I recently had a disagreement about the way a man hits a woman. You can't punch her, he said (that gesture being reserved for man-to-man combat), nor can you slap her (that's effeminate). Instead, you swat her with the back of your hand. Interesting, I said. It's like hitting a dog with a bit of rolled-up newspaper. I began to get excited, thinking that maybe I had found a thesis topic. When women slap one another, I said delightedly, they are still retaining face-to-face communication. When...