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...could Renee Zellweger, recently cast as Bridget, duplicate this very British aspect of Bridget?) shows that Bridget is less high-strung than Ally McBeal, the inevitable object of comparison. And some genuinely hilarious moments pepper the novel: going to Mark Darcy's house and finding a "lithe oriental boy, stark naked, smiling weirdly, and holding out two wooden balls on a string and a baby rabbit...
...Order") is simply employed as an attractive man who conveniently stumbles into Abbie's live and falls in love with her rather quickly. Academy Award nominated actress Lynn Redgrave is underused as Robert's affable and quirky mother, and Neil Patrick Harris (the currently star of NBC's "Stark Raving Mad") pops up occasionally to console Robert as a fellow gay man. Sam, played by newcomer Malcolm Stumpf at age six, is born and grows ups in a matter of seconds. In fact, each little character episode speeds through the film, providing transitions before quickly returning to the center...
...marriage: a couple embraces while the guests hold up wine glasses in a toast. Suddenly, the music clashes and all the guests let go of their cups, which (because they are tied to the ceiling by invisible wire) then swing in unison for the remainder of the ballet. This stark, surprising introduction immediately drew me into the piece. The ever-present wine glasses represent the promises and happiness of the wedding; they hang from the ceiling to show a direct opposition to the unhappy events that ensue. The bride has an affair and ultimately is forced to choose between...
...situation in Foreign Cultures is the most stark. In an e-mail message, Susan W. Lewis, director of the Core Program, wrote that while students who can blow the space of two, three or four courses in their plans of study pursuing a Foreign Cultures petition outside the Core have a relatively good rate of acceptance, "petitions to count a single department course are denied by the Foreign Cultures committee...
Three women wearing curious hoods approach him in a deserted alleyway--fans, he guesses--and the next thing he knows he is chained hands and feet to the floor of a stark white room with only a skylight in the high ceiling to remind him of the outside world. "You belong to us," one of the women tells him. "You're ours...