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Directed by Joe WrightFocus Features4 1/2 starsIt seems impossible that Jane Austen’s most beloved novel, “Pride and Prejudice,” could be adapted successfully after Laurence Olivier’s 1940 film version, a fantastic 1995 BBC TV mini-series starring (swoon) Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy, and the recent Bollywood comedy “Bride & Prejudice” had mined so much from the material. While director Joe Wright’s version, “Pride & Prejudice,” adds little to the incomparable plot and adored characters other than...
...only one moving into galleries. Swoon, 27, makes intricate figurative images that she wheat-pastes to walls. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art acquired six of her pieces this past summer. "We were astounded," says Deborah Wye, chief curator of MOMA's department of prints. "She was using very traditional printmaking techniques--woodcut and linoleum--that she had infused with this contemporary spirit." It's a spirit she takes from the street. And one she leaves behind there...
...years this city didn't have a baseball team, and there was no suffering in August. No annual Red Sox collapse. No summer Cubs swoon. No pain...
...they couldn't hit. So what? They could hit just enough to scratch and claw and steal a run to win. Literally, a run. At one point, in games decided by one run, they won 12 straight. And then it came. A complete July collapse, followed by an August swoon, a zombie death march. Thirteen straight one-run losses...
...stake, you've grown up with the team, and you tell yourself you're rooting on behalf of your late father of blessed memory. But I have no such alibi. These hand-me-down no-name castoffs are strangers. And torturers, I tell you. They stop the swoon and win four in a row. They're in the thick of the wild-card chase. They're coming back! But I'm no fool. I've been here before. It's a setup. It's a tease. The idea is to raise my hopes again so they can ruin my September...