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...years I've coveted my neighbor's satellite dish. And while there's no explicit commandment against it, I knew it wasn't good for me to imagine him, smug in his vibra-chair, watching unusual and exotic programming--sumo wrestling from Japan, I bet, or The Larry Sanders Show reruns--while I was stuck with $50-a-month basic cable plus HBO and no pay-per-view. Last week, I'm delighted to say, I found an excuse to get my own direct-broadcast satellite TV. EchoStar, the second-largest DBS provider in the U.S., has just rolled...
...twist, Mercedes saves more than $70 million by shipping components from its plant in Tuscaloosa, Ala., back to Europe for assembly alongside the Jeep. "There was the distinct opinion on the Mercedes side that we would never build a Mercedes under a Chrysler roof," says Schrempp, with a smug grin. "We're doing it already...
...course, there's a lot going on here that's simply implied by our familiarity with the characters and storyline of this saga. We know that Anakin and Amidala are destined to marry and bear twins Luke and Leia. We know that the smug Senator Palpatine will eventually reveal his dastardliness as he transforms into the creepy Emporer we've seen in Return of the Jedi. And we know that somehow, he will act in turning the thoughtful and loving little Anakin to the Dark Side to become the monstrous Darth Vader...
Hoffman stages their play-within-a-play with energetic conviction, and Bottom's misalliance with Titania, the fairy queen (Michelle Pfeiffer), is played with a certain sexy intensity. But the human lovers (who include Calista Flockhart as the comically obsessed Helena), muddled by the carelessness of Stanley Tucci's smug Puck with his love potions, don't achieve firm definition. Lacking the center of concern they might provide, this version of the play becomes a collection of well-loved scenes: dutiful but mostly unmagical...
...Flick kneels over her daisy-decorated sheets (which go perfectly with the rainbow-laden inspirational posters on her room walls), hands clasped together earnestly, praying--desperately pleading--for God to tamper with the minds of her high school classmates. It's a fitting conclusion to a vehemently ferocious, unfailingly smug and of course, utterly merciless campaign. Tracy Flick is the poster child for ambition...