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...Take, for example, the opening of the show, which moves from a lip-synch of Pat Benatar’s “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” to a classical piece that plays under the prologue. In the same vein, self-parodying gags like the announcement of each character’s entrance in the final scene with a spotlight, a theme song, and a pose are wonderfully funny—especially because they play off the tone and conventions of the era’s plays...
...million senoritas into ecstasy; he crooned, they swooned. The movies he starred in were among the most popular in Latin America; and one, the 1948 Nosotros los pobres...! (We the Poor) is the biggest hit in Mexican film history. He anchored cowboy comedies, historical-political epics and dozens of vein-popping romantic melodramas. He played virginal student-priests (in El Seminarista -The Seminarian) and rogues who at the crack of dawn rose from a lady's bed and jumped out the window (in Dicen que soy mujeriego -They Call Me a Ladies' Man). The good-hearted heroes he played fought...
...places. Perhaps there is a reason why the cover of “Body of Lies” reads in small font “A Novel.” The omission of “Spy” is telling. This is not a Spy Novel in the vein of Graham Greene and John Le Carré; it’s just a pedestrian novel that’s even less interesting than the hundreds of cookie cutter thrillers that crowd airport bookstores...
...Given that both sides are likely to stay set in their opposing demands, it remains to be seen how long Morales can walk his fine line that, like the middle vein of the coca leaf itself, runs directly down the middle...
...events continue in the vein of this beginning, this may be the year that the Harvard heavyweights once again do just that...