Word: soles
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...Benn". He journeys towards her psychologically as well as physically throughout the film, recalling his interactions with her when she was indeed housekeeper at Darlington Hall, as he gradually approaches her current home in the West Country. The relationship of Mr. Stevens and Miss Kenton/Mrs. Benn is not the sole focus of the film, however. Mr. Stevens re-evaluates his professional past as well, from the vantage of the present. Under the service of a new American employer in the "real time" of the movie, Mr. Stevens reflects on the character of his former employer, Lord Darlington, a man involved...
...scene which then surfaces on the screen. In another misguided attempt to create unity, the American millionaire by whom Stevens is currently employed is conflated with another character, the American politician named Lewis. The congressman, played by Christopher Reeves, is endowed, in the film, with the role of sole crusader against the Nazis. The material in the book which suggests that his motives might be no less polluted than those of the other pro-Nazi characters, is deleted in the movie, and he is depicted truly as a superman...
...aimed at loosening what many critics had charged was an excess of bureaucratic regulation. States were given an extra year, until Jan. 1, 1998, to set up the health-care alliances the plan contemplates. If a state opts instead for a single-payer system under which the government becomes sole insurer and pays all doctor and hospital bills, the revised bill simplifies the administrative procedures that state must go through. To ease fears that the Administration will restrict patients' choice of doctors, the final bill provides that even health maintenance organizations must allow members to consult doctors...
These things we learn in due course: that Vito's sole surviving relative is a small-time crook in Rome; that the dead boy in the cave had been kidnapped by Vito's family and was being held for ransom; that the family's slayers were members of a rival clan (though their precise motives remain obscure). Vito catches glimpses of the dead boy's parents on TV, making anguished pleas for his return. Eventually he feels compelled to make his way to them, and attempts to crawl into their son's bed, into his very life. The moviemakers note...
...performance space at the palace with various fairies and guests dancing for the court. These guests include Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, and Puss `n' Boots and the White Cat from other fairy tales in a decision that seems out of context, employed for the sole purpose of filling out Tchaikovsky's score. A highlight of the final act is the beautiful pas de deux between a Blue Bird, danced by Paul Thrussel, and his enchanted princess (Adriana Suarez). In this pas de deux, the lifts and leaps break boundaries in choreography noticeably lacking in the rest...