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...portrait of Gowan, who was a supporting character in the novel. But Reuben's prize jackanapes is Tom Conti. This delightful English actor (TV's The Norman Conquests) uses all his honed tools-the dimples, the fluty voice, the hermit-crab walk, the little-boy eyes-to steal every scene just by being in it. Petty and poetic, desperate and delightful, Conti's Gowan is the funniest portrayal of a down-on-his-art genius since Alec Guinness's Gulley Jimson in The Horse's Mouth. It is certainly reason enough for a grownup...
...fine acid rain. There are honorable, even commanding exceptions (see box), but the majority of clips now in circulation are labored ephemera with heavily imitative associations, fully worthy of one executive's dismissive characterization as "this year's satin jackets." Observes Temple: "A lot of videos steal surreal images from places like Zoom magazine and the French Vogue...
...remember the first influx of Cubans when I was in grade school in Miami during the 1960s. The Cubans left behind everything they had. When they arrived in Florida, they did not "steal" jobs from the blacks, as Black Radio Announcer Les Brown asserts. The jobs were there for the taking, and the Cubans took them, however menial. In a few years, the Cubans were starting their own businesses and were adding a colorful international flair to the city...
Just about the only way the Grinch could steal this holly-jolly Christmas would be for stores to run out of merchandise. Having been stuck with unsold goods last year, many retailers ordered too cautiously for this season. Still, a few empty shelves will be more appealing to shopkeepers than empty aisles...
...second period it looked as if Daskalakis would steal the show. In a little less than four minutes, he produced the two finest saves of the game...