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Oughta: Sissy Spacek, Crimes of the Heart. She was real good in this so-so movies. I toast that little loony with a glass of lipsmackin' lemonade...
Headroom the movie was a witty techno-fantasy with so-so acting and great special effects. Headroom the book has color film stills and the "novelized" story, but this is a weak substitute for the original movie, particularly when burdened by the tinkertoy style of writer Steve Roberts. Still, the stills are handsome enough, and if you just can't get enough of Headroom's electro-magnetic looks, this book might tide you over until you can hook up to his cable talk-show...
Despite Harvard's so-so performance Saturday, there are several reasons why the Crimson women should be contenders for the Heptagonal championships next month...
Nonetheless, Sweet Charity is no masterpiece. Neil Simon's book is more often predictable than funny, and the second act neither coheres nor makes much sense. Dorothy Fields' lyrics are much too witty to come from the dim characters. Cy Coleman's so-so score provides two rousing standards, which evoke Fosse's cleverest numbers: the sullenly sexy ensemble come-on in Big Spender, and Allen's sprightly, sprawling solo to If My Friends Could See Me Now. Although Allen belts out the songs and adapts capably to Fosse's jagged, staccato movements, she utterly lacks Charity's doormat vulnerability...
...lives of many residents straddle the boundary. "Half of my family is in the U.S.," says Francisco Xavier Rivas, 36, who runs an industrial park in Mexicali. "It's interesting when we get together. Those from the U.S. speak almost no Spanish, those from Mexicali speak so-so Spanish, while those from Mexico City speak very good Spanish." Cathy Hernandez, 29, was born in Juarez but went through high school in El Paso. She is an international banking officer at the First City National Bank of El Paso. Her husband Javier, 32, works as a supervisor at a racetrack...