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...characters' are well-drawn, the dialogue (by Robert,'Towne) well-written, the acting superb--why has "Chinatown" not withstood the test of time? Perhaps modern-day audiences don't take revelations of political and more corruption so personally anymore. Maybe the film meant more to a viewer in 1974. But meaning must evolve, not fade, and after two decades, "Chinatown" shows signs...
Prepared following the Second Vatican Council the Catechism comments on both essential tenets and recent "hot" issues. In intelligent, concise and well-written prose, the Church reaffirms its opposition to homosexual acts (not homosexuals--there's a difference). It explains its continued opposition to abortion. It maintains the prohibition on the use of contraception...
Call ahead and reserve your tickets. The Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre production of "Noises Off" is a crowd-pleasing slapstick hit. Michael Frayn's well-written farce within a farce is miraculously pulled--and pushed--off by a talented company in its final play of the summer...
...used to believe that "Beavisization" was entirely restricted to the shallow, ignorant world of popular television. I've always viewed the written word with a sort of awe; anything that appeared in a newspaper or magazine was necessarily well-argued and well-written, automatically deserving of the highest respect and entirely severed from the world of 90210 and the made-for-TV Amy Fisher movies...
...dialogue itself is well-written, but it is Grant's sheer confidence combined with Russell's feigned indifference that makes the exchange electric. One need look no further for an example of how a woman can stand up to a man and have fun doing...