Word: vaines
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...different, less admiring view. "The mute memorial is all around us," writes Glazer in The Public Interest; and the most successful of them, the Vietnam Memorial, "does not tell us that [those killed] died for their country, or for liberty, or for democracy, or even that they died in vain. It says nothing except that they died." We may speak to the memorials, says Glazer, but they no longer speak clearly to us. Modern art has replaced excessive clarity with none...
...like the movie; their lust for dinolore appears to be insatiable. But the rest of us will yearn for Robin Williams' giddy goofing in Aladdin. And the narrative alertness of Toy Story 2. As James Newton Howard's nonstop score pushes us to an emotional involvement, we hope in vain that Barney will pop out from behind a rock. Alas, someone else holds the copyright...
...chipper, light-spirited man, always with a fresh carnation on the lapel of his bespoke suits, telling well-turned anecdotes about his favored adulthood and pained childhood. A knighted Anglophile, he risked his career speaking against U.S. isolationism before World War II, fought bravely in it (he was childishly vain about his medals) and was a little resentful, later on, when show biz didn't give him any Old Guy awards. But by then he was the Scarlet Pimpernel of those illusive qualities, grace and charm. He made his living mysteriously--producing and arranging--but when he appeared, in drawing...
...democracy. And because it's a vote for a not particularly serious position, Labor supporters feel they can vote against the government without strengthening the hand of the Conservatives." Still, the slap-down has to sting Blair, who invested a considerable amount of his own political capital in a vain bid to shut out Livingstone. But that's the kind of adversity on which the insurgent Livingstone has always thrived, and Blair's efforts simply turned the election into a referendum on his efforts to override the choice of the Labor membership. "Livingstone's a great, colorful campaigner...
...tried all my life to avoid dysfunctional people, and I wound up seeing all of them in one motion picture. I paid good money and spent two hours sitting in the dark like a captive, waiting to be rescued by some redeeming goodness--in vain. That was my experience of seeing American Beauty! R. FREDERICK GRACE Alhambra, Calif...