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...even stores whose main business isn't bookselling are aping the superstores' bibliophilic ambiance. In Manhattan's landmark Scribner's bookstore, fabled haunt of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, a Benetton branch has set up shop and begun playing host to something called the Salon, a reading series featuring such swank young writers as Daphne Merkin, whose books will be on sale amid the turtlenecks...
...then arbitrariness is the show's only distinguishing element. In the first episode, dwarfs appear as waiters at a swank hotel for no explicable reason. In some ways, Gun resembles a camp version of Altman's Short Cuts. Like that film, it offers vignettes of the striving and the desperate. With Gun, though, viewers are left with characters like Lilly (Rosanna Arquette), a lonely housewife prone to doing suggestive aerobics alone in her living room and whining as though she's ingested too much Slim-Fast. Chuck Norris would at least know enough to ease the pain with a chili...
...Robert Altman, Gun aims to follow the life of a single pistol?an intriguing premise until you realize that no single episode will have any relation to the last. But then arbitrariness is the show?s only distinguishing element. In the first episode, dwarfs appear as waiters at a swank hotel for no explicable reason. "In some ways, 'Gun' resembles a camp version of Altman?s 'Short Cuts,'" says TIME's Ginia Bellafante. "Like that film, it offers vignettes of the striving and the desperate...
Potente noted that the city's rising demand for market-rate housing could contribute to such a high increase in rent. With its proximity to Boston, high-quality public schools, relatively low crime rates and growing number of swank watering holes, Cambridge is quickly becoming one of Boston's most desirable communities...
...audience. What's crucial is that the voice hasn't changed; instead of Morissette's sandpaper, Colvin has a silky sound that she wears like sackcloth to suit her pretty dirges. These songs, most of which she wrote with her producer, John Leventhal, still have the swank and cutting edge of Colvin's legendary cheekbones...