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...Barr may be aware of this failing, because she loads Backpack with enough neurotic angst to fill a season's worth of Ally McBeal, then grafts on a murder-mystery subplot centering around a backpacker serial killer stalking Tansy look-alikes. The murderer can be spotted within a few paragraphs of the title page, but provides a diversion from a suddenly at-one-with-Asia Tansy looking down upon the "tourists" in Bangkok or musing with unconscious irony upon "deluded Westerners" at the base of Mount Everest. Barr even includes Tansy's rambling e-mails home; most people...
...left a radioactive glow around the edges of Morris' reputation. Two years later, Theodore Rex offers Morris the chance to redeem himself by returning to the field of his first triumph. And let the record show that at no point in this book does Morris introduce himself into a subplot of the action. On the mid-September day in 1901 when Vice President Roosevelt gets word that President William McKinley has succumbed to an assassin's bullet, Morris isn't the messenger who brings the telegram. When Teddy plots to uncouple Panama from Colombia--so that the U.S. could have...
...other major subplot involves Blunt, an Englishman who hopes to find the women of Naples more responsive to his charms than those of his homeland. Caleb L. Rabinowitz ’05 does a fine job with the tricky part, which requires him to act as comic relief most of the time but to communicate genuine emotion at a few key turns...
...refusal to take itself too seriously. Certainly, Amélie’s relationship with the Man of Glass (an elderly neighbor so named for his severe bone disease) adds an intellectual counterpoint to all the levity. But just when it seems that Jeunet is establishing another dour subplot, he kicks it to the curb with one of the film’s simplest and best jokes. It’s clear that Jeunet and his cast are having fun with this film, and the enthusiasm is contagious. After the recent release of The Closet, the new standard for French...
...lockdown on the whole West Wing. By chance, a group of high school students who have won the opportunity to participate in Presidential Classroom are in the building. They are secured in the office’s cafeteria along with Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman. In a subplot, Chief of Staff Leo McGarry interrogates an Arab-American White House staff member who is suspected of being involved with terrorist activities...