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Though this is the least ambitious movie Allen has made in decades -- for better or worse the return to "pure" comedy his critics have urged on him -- he seems to have a little more on his mind than updating The Thin Man. For one thing, Double Indemnity, which he quotes directly and indirectly. For another, the classic New Yorker's ambivalence about neighbors; the Liptons lament not knowing the folks they see on the elevator, but they live in fear of being drawn into boring, alien lives...
...Britain, the gel can be squirted into the spaces between teeth and gums. In a U.S. study of 100 patients who had completed a round of oral antibiotics, Walter Loesche of the University of Michigan and James Giordano of the University of Detroit School of Dentistry administered metronidazole on thin patches of an organic material called ethyl cellulose. Preliminary results indicate that the combination treatment saved 94% of teeth scheduled for surgery, and the teeth remained disease-free throughout a three-year follow-up period...
...This thin, user-friendly book has developed into an unwelcome monument to the summer of 1993. It sits at my endtable sometimes; most days, it's buried in the clothesheap on the floor. The bookmark is stuck in page 187, and it's been that way for months...
...know about such problems from the way he has mismanaged his own franchise. The Brewers, in fact, currently have the worst record in the American League and a severely dwindling attendance. This in baseball-mad Milwaukee, where fan support for the Brewers has usually held strong through thick and thin...
Stoddard, like most of Washington's Nunn-watchers, was assuming that the Senator was putting the finishing touches on a work that was his -- and the Joint Chiefs' -- in all but name. The hearings were seen as Nunn's attempt to trim down the thin veneer of political correctness the President had added to the policy in order to claim an "honorable compromise." As irritated as Nunn might be at Clinton's admittedly tortured distinctions between gay "orientation" (to be tolerated) and gay "conduct" (grounds for dismissal), the betting was that he would merely badger Defense Secretary Les Aspin...