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...fable of the grinds vs. the goons, played out daily in suburban schoolyards, gets sophisticated tweaks from Lasseter, co-director Andrew Stanton and their colleagues. The movie teems with political infighting, with carnage and compromise, at the grass-roots level--Michael Collins meets Microcosmos. Indeed, for the first half hour or so, A Bug's Life is so dense with characters and illustrative detail that it nearly chokes on its own banquet. The filmmakers encourage you to wander through the glamorous terrain of their imaginations as if the picture were a product reel for 21st century cinema...
Friday was the day he died a Washington death, stripping himself of power and becoming in that instant just a guy in a suburban tract house in Marietta, Ga., carrying out the trash. We all should have seen his resignation coming when, on Tuesday night, he came out swinging at the media, blaming them for his party's shellacking. With Nixonian petulance, he rejected suggestions that his party tanked because he had put all its eggs in Monica's basket. No, he said, it was the media's All Monica All the Time madness that kept him from getting...
...from now what compromises he'll need to make to be an effective leader." Stodghill, who came to TIME last year from Business Week and has written cover stories on the Promise Keepers and sex education, reports that Ventura is nonplussed about his first major transition, moving from his suburban Minneapolis ranch to the confines of the Governor's mansion. "He says he's looking forward to all the free food...
...imagine the closeness and joy an elderly Eastern European babushka must have felt in the early 20th century when she used a telephone for the first time, and heard the chirping words of her grandchild coming over the wire from the New World. We can lament the suburban neighborhoods that grew quiet when television held post-war children in the living room in the hours when they used to play Kick the Can. We can relax as planes, trains and automobiles zip us around the shrinking world--Boston today, New York tomorrow, Sri Lanka the next. We can both love...
...injurers, their family and therapists. Strong's effort, by contrast, is a richly reported and achingly well-written account that benefits from a reporter's storytelling skills. As she profiles a range of injurers--from Andrew, a star chemistry student at a British university, to Fran, a wealthy suburban New York matron--Strong deftly crafts not a freak parade but a sad march of the familiar...