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...itself through the doors of the condemned--is splendidly eerie. It makes a compelling argument for the Exodus story to be told in the unique language of animation. The film's colors and textures are handsomely diametrical: the cool elegance of Pharaoh's palace as opposed to the burnished warmth of the Israelites' huts and, more daringly, the angular Jewish features against the Africanized Egyptian...
...really only knew Suzanne through class but nevertheless she had one of those radiant personalities, a class of her own," he said. "She was in a lot of ways an oxymoron in the best sense of the word: warmth, but cool, brilliant and outstanding, critical in a friendly way. She always had a straight up answer...
Except the prose. "I rode towards Inkerman with my chin buried in my shirt, smelling myself for warmth," Dr. Potter recalls as the novel marches toward its final, appalling snapshot. "Midst the dirt and the staleness I detected the frail scent of cornflowers." Like the unblinking young Myrtle, forced to pose for a picture with a dead man, Bainbridge faces the most shadowy aspects of human nature head on, and demands that her readers do the same...
Tony Bennett's greatest gift as a singer has always been his warmth, the sheer joy and geniality that radiate from his pipes. The same goes for this memoir, which skates pleasantly over the surface of his life--just about everyone he ever worked with is "the greatest"--and doesn't even wobble on the choppy patches (the divorces, the cocaine, the time he beat up Don Rickles). One especially wishes the book dug more deeply into Bennett's music--a surprising lack, since co-author Will Friedwald is one of the sharpest jazz writers around. Still, this...
There were no lines at 6 a.m. on Friday asthere are for the popular late-morning shuttles,but the few athletes taking it said they were gladfor the warmth and speed. The walk form the Quadto the athletic facilities can take as long as 25minutes...