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...into aromatherapy, reflexology and rebirthing). And the stars are abfab. Jennifer Saunders, who writes the show and plays Edina, can evoke both laughter and sympathy just belly-sliding down a flight of stairs. And Joanna Lumley is delicious as Patsy, ogling a leather-jacketed adolescent, chasing a handsome stranger into an airplane loo or casually pulling a pregnancy-test kit from her purse...
...majority of the film is Gump's first-person recitation of his life story to strangers while he sits on a park bench. Could you see this happening in New York City? I think he would have been hauled off to Bellevue. Or in Los Angeles? Well, everyone drives there. No where else would people take the time, listen and empathize with a complete stranger. Yes, the movie also shows the rednecks who tease him, but the optimistic glaze of the film uses their hatred as a source for Forrest's strength and development...
...from battered wives sharply increased last week, domestic violence remains not really a crime -- especially among the men who commit it or sympathize with those who do. The word domestic modifies and diminishes the word that follows so much that it is not considered true violence. Beating up a stranger gets you jailed; beating up a wife lands you in therapy...
...time. The boy was not amused. The reasppearance of Ernesto J. Vargas, who had abandoned his wife a few months into her pregnancy, meant that Mario was yanked out of his mother's loving, extended family, the Llosas, and forced to live in close quarters with an extremely irritable stranger...
...oneself." The author of this journal entry was 46 and world famous when he was killed in a car crash south of Paris on Jan. 4, 1960. Within this short life, Albert Camus had won the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature and produced a compact body of novels (The Stranger, The Plague), plays (Caligula) and philosophical essays (The Myth of Sisyphus) that both defined and helped create a 20th century temperament: We are by ourselves in an absurd universe, compelled to act but bereft of any reasonable grounds for doing so. Camus seemed to embody the laconic stoicism...