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...daughter in American Beauty, and Johansson, who has been playing wise children for almost half her life (Manny & Lo, The Horse Whisperer). "Enid is an original," says Birch, now 19. "Timeless." So is the actress's incarnation. She gives Enid the stooped posture and scowl of an overweight spinster; she's a prematurely old soul. Johansson, now 16, is nifty as Enid's more passive ally. "Rebecca's head is screwed on right," Johansson notes, "but Enid's is sort of floating around...
...stands out, perfectly. And as the plot of Bridget Jones's Diary ripens, and two handsome men--rapacious Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) and dull Mark Darcy (Colin Firth)--tumble vagrantly into her heart, Zellweger reveals, as in a soul's striptease, Bridget's appeal. Inside this "verbally incontinent spinster" (as Darcy calls her), a brilliant vamp is aching to be set free...
...quotations and images continues throughout the rest of the exhibit. Next to pictures of rows of docile school children with crossed hands and obedient expressions, and happy children engaging in healthy, innocent activities is the quotation, “A great many school children have been damaged by the spinster teacher, who cannot be an adequate model of a complete woman.” The quotation is used in direct opposition to the serenity of the children, and causes the viewer to reexamine the series of images presented...
...reminded of that grand old Yankee spinster who, when asked whether she regretted not having a husband, snapped, "I've got a parrot that swears, a stove that smokes and a cat that stays out nights--what do I want with a husband?" NANCY CAREY Benson...
...side characters are truly outstanding. Sol Kim '02-previously seen on the Harvard stage in the Lowell House Opera production of The Beggar's Opera-in the role of Dame Hannah, Rose's spinster Aunt, puts so much comic energy into her part that she lights up every scene in which she appears. Furthermore, it is easy to realize that Kim is enjoying herself on stage and having a great time as Hannah, allowing her to avoid succumbing to potential silliness, as sporadically happens to Karoun Demirjian '03 in playing the village lunatic, Mad Margaret (although it seems to have...