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...through his melodramatic, messy story. "Law of Desire" sometimes feels like a B-movie, sometimes like a parody of a B-movie and occasionally like fine drama. It's a hodge-podge that winds up surprisingly witty and even moving. "Law of Desire" may also be Almodovar's smartest, most challenging film. He displays here an acute consciousness of the way deviance and normalcy tend to get mixed up; in his merciless satire, the Church and the family unit appear twisted and sick, while heroine addicts and hookers seem like ordinary folk...
Makes sense to anybody who's gone to the 'plex lately. Or maybe Hartley is kidding. It's hard to tell with the smartest, orneriest new outlaw in the movies...
...everything from hand-held laser swords to autonomous robots programmed to kill. The long-term trend, as demonstrated in the Persian Gulf last year, is toward short battles conducted at long distance by increasingly intelligent machines. Defense experts predict that the next arms race will be to develop the smartest, stealthiest and most accurate weapons and to demonstrate their superiority convincingly enough in advance to avoid risking lives and expensive hardware on the battlefield...
...likely that in years ahead, researchers will come up with drugs that can restore lost memory, especially for people suffering from Alzheimer's and other degenerative illnesses. Until such medications have been proved safe and effective, however, leaving smart pills alone may be the smartest move...
...chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, a group that wants to yank the party back to the center, Clinton's idea of a well-spent weekend is one given to working on welfare and education reform. Yet when he was introduced at a forum in New Hampshire as the smartest of the candidates, he quipped, "Isn't that a little like calling Moe the most intelligent of the Three Stooges...