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...stars are actually pretty good--Moore holds the camera's gaze as securely as any actress--but they can't save this revisionist slog. The film blames the 17th century for not being the 20th and Hawthorne for not being Danielle Steel. If this Scarlet got a letter, it would...
Meanwhile, such basic information as how many people are on a given payroll and how many faculty are tenured or untenured is difficult to retrieve without a mountain of paper Proctor says Even the highest ranking of Harvard's deans have to slog through these processes...
There's not a lot for audiences to cheer about in Rob Roy; it's a muddy, bloody slog through 18th century agrarian politics. Lange was attracted to Alan Sharp's script ("an amazingly beautiful piece of writing"), which contains some sonorous orations and choice epithets. Lange brings that signal gift, sexual intelligence, to the role of Mary MacGregor; the light in her eyes catches fire when she stares at Neeson. But Mary is not part of the film's main conflict, between Neeson and villain Tim Roth. Despite Lange's efforts, Mary is a mature version of that macho...
Despite taking two important Chechen cities, Argun and Shali, last week, the Russian army faces a long slog in Chechnya. "It won't end so quickly," said the Russian commander, Colonel General Anatoli S. Kulikov. "We calculate that by the summer period, we can establish control of two-thirds of the territory...
...began to write in Texas, McCarthy's published work remained a hard slog for readers who couldn't cut through his syntactical thornbush, but in 1979 he brought out Suttree, apparently the last book set in the South he had in him, and it was rough, gnarly, funny as hell and, for the first time, accessible. Here is the novel on the Big Question...