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...contrast, the landscape of Pleasantville, however artificial and hokey, is cute, and at times beautiful. There's a deep affection for the old golly-gee school of American television, even though the film sets out to make the point that reality, however ugly, is better than the monotonous trap of sitcom life. Freedom and color, we learn, are better than Pleasantville's forced cheeriness in various shades of gray...
...English-speakers. Heaney's cultural reclamation has done more than recycle the same problem of exclusive ownership. Foregrounding the Irish perspective in English literature was not an aggressive repossession, but an invitation for others to try to crack the monopoly. Thankfully, Heaney keeps from falling into the same old trap: His cultural reclamation stakes out land for more than just one ethnic group, marking it off emphatically as a public space...
...causing more mayhem in real bodies so they try to switch into the bodies of two Noxzema models by obtaining a magic medallion buried along with Chucky's human corpse (not that this matters much to the movie or makes much sense). The teens that fall into this trap are completely immemorable, cast as they were by looks...
...letter to Reno asking her to look into the charges. Kendall also went further. Transcripts of the Tripp tapes show that Tripp urged Lewinsky not to sign her Jones-case affidavit, the one denying sex with Clinton, until Jordan had found her a job. Kendall suggests that Starr, to trap the President, may have prompted Tripp to push that idea on Lewinsky. Tripp's grand jury testimony also discloses that she began cooperating closely with Jones' lawyers as early as November. By January she had already provided so much information, sources told TIME, that Jones' lawyers spent only 20 minutes...
...When they use that trap option, we're going to go to an assignment defense," Kacyvenski said. "They're big up front and we feel that we have a lot to prepare for defending...