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...mission, to rectify the evils of society. Then viewers choose from three plot lines, each one more politically correct than the last. In one, a woman has been sexually harrassed; in another, a black man has been fired form his job and cheated out of a large sum of money; in the third an hispanic man has been discriminated against and called a "taco eater...
...health center warmed to her friendliness, and the Emperor and Empress gave her smiles and English tea at the Imperial Palace. Di even had a victory at home: her lawsuit against a gym owner who secretly photographed her exercising was settled for an apology and a substantial sum that will go to a favorite charity...
...sum, the performance at the forum was a rather uninspired, and uninspiring, bit of fluff. The only interesting comments of the evening came from Gould. Every interested person who missed the debate should read his comments in the The New Yorker. Given the chance to relive Tuesday evening, I would have elected to stay home and carefully read Gould's article to get some real intellectual debate...
...fatalistic inability of the characters to understand or to control the events of their lives is expressed in these words--they pop out of the dialogue and steer one towards understanding, even when the sum of the conversation is obtuse. Through these moments of clarity, Mamet offers us clues to 'the cryptogram...
Contescu admitted she did not pay rent toHarrop during her tenancy, but said that she hadpaid the doctor an advance deposit of more than$3,000, which he illegally solicited in defianceof rent control laws. She said the sum was morethan enough to cover the rent, then $221 a month...