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...Canadian writer-director Atom Egoyan in his handsome, quirky comedy THE ADJUSTER. Noah Render (Elias Koteas) is one such user, an insurance claims adjuster whose sensitivity to his clients' suffering extends to having sex with nearly all of them, from frowsy couples to purring studs to a burnt-out stunner (the lustrous Jennifer Dale). It makes life tough for Noah's wife (Arsinee Khanjian), a film censor. Both have jobs appraising erotic desires and pathetic dreams; both have a ruthless talent for "sorting things out, deciding what has value and what doesn't." The Adjuster has value: it finds...
...using a huge ax and several knives, hacked three soldiers to death. Assuming the killers were Palestinians from the occupied territories, Jews at first saw the attack as yet another terrorist engagement that fell within the unwritten rules of the region's slow-burn war. But then came the stunner: the alleged assailants, apprehended last month, were not aggrieved residents of the territories but citizens of Israel -- Arab citizens, "our Arabs," as Jewish Israelis think of this normally pacific minority. Suddenly, it looked to the country's Jewish majority as if the enemy was now truly in their midst...
...different. Under the leadership of tri-captains Mary Greenhill, Brooke Bailey and Carrie Cunningham, the 1991-92 Crimson top nine is determined to prove that no one can underestimate it and get away with it. Just one game against the aggressive Greenhill, with her canon serve, or the tenacious stunner, sophomore Jordanna Fraiberg, who has filled the number-one spot since she arrived at Harvard, is enough to get the point across--these folks don't take too kindly when told they can't do something...
OVERSEAS. Three Frenchwomen in postwar North Africa wait for their hearts to tumble and the colonial empire to crumble. This essay in sisterhood marks an assured debut from actress-director Brigitte Rouan. But the big news is Marianne Basler, a stunner, as the most restless of the sisters...
...Pfeiffer) in a workplace seduction straight out of Anita Hill's nightmares, but he's really a sweet guy who can make a cactus bloom. Pacino plays Johnny as if he is New York: pushy, forlorn, indomitable. And Pfeiffer, laying claim to the title of Hollywood's most accomplished stunner, is every skeptic who tried vainly to fight off the city's spell...