Word: snapper
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...Name of the Father " at 12:45, 3:30, 6:20, 9 and 11:35. "Shadowlands" at 1, 3:50, 6:40 and 9:20. "Schindler's List" at 12:30, 4:10, 7:50 and 11:20. "The Snapper" at 1:15, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 and 11:45. "Rocky Horror" on Friday and Saturday nights...
...SNAPPER British...
This maneuver may be unduly superstitious, particularly since Doyle, 35, has been thriving in Joyce's shadow. His first three novels earned impressive reviews and sales, and two of them -- The Commitments and The Snapper (see CINEMA) -- have received successful screen adaptations. And in October, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha won the Booker Prize, Britain's most highly trumpeted literary award. Thanks to the publicity attendant upon the Booker, U.S. readers get the chance to buy Doyle's fourth novel now instead of next April, when it was originally scheduled to cross the Atlantic...
This, you ask, is the stuff of comedy? No, not exactly. It is the pretext for comedy -- wonderful comedy, maybe the best of the year. For The Snapper (the word is local dialect for a baby) isn't really about making mistakes. It's about how, as Sharon comes to term, the Curley family all come to terms with what she's done, with themselves and with the little gossiping corner of the world they inhabit...
Cinema: The Snapper may be the year's best comedy...