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...Apatow and company derives from the fact that though their premises offer a lot of vulgar promise, they rarely deliver on that potential full-bore. What they?re really doing, most of the time, is offering twists and updates on the classic romantic comedy formulas, making them acceptable to today???s much younger movie audiences. For example, Forgetting Sarah Marshall seems to be what the academics like to call a ?Comedy of Remarriage.? You know - fairly mature couple splits up, endures some feckless romantic misadventures, then get more happily reconnected in the final reel. You expect that...
...boisterous spectators cheered on the gladiators?were the fighters' outfits, including their short-skirted armor and, most memorably, their distinctive sandals, often just a pair of leather soles strapped to the feet with leather guards to protect the shins. Back then, gladiator sandals served a practical purpose, but today???nearly 2,000 years later?they cater to a very different crowd, turning up at modern-day spectacles (think movie premieres and nightclub sorties) for purely sartorial purposes. In recent seasons, the fashion flock has adopted the tough footwear as its own form of armor. The style has proved an able...
...order for a new nuclear plant since 1978, and they are unlikely to do so in the near future. Says Robert Scherer, chairman of Georgia Power and head of the U.S. Committee for Energy Awareness, a pro-nuclear group: "No utility executive in the country would consider ordering one today???unless he wanted to be certified or committed...
...They don't raise doves in the Kremlin," says Medvedev. "But where Mikhail Suslov [the late party ideologue] was a dogmatist, Andropov is a pragmatist. The major problems of Soviet foreign policy today???Poland and Afghanistan?cannot be solved by applying more power, but through skill and flexibility...
...most radical and pro-Soviet of the Arab states. In addition, the U.S. viewed Iraq as a dangerously disruptive force in the Middle East. Iraq had refused to sign an armistice agreement with Israel after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Thus Baghdad technically remained ?and remains today???in a state of war with Israel. Says one U.S. expert: "Our worries reflected the quality of the regime as much as specific [nuclear] programs...