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Most important is the films' mood: romantically retro. The sunny disposition, the swooning sentiment, the neat haircuts whisk you back to the pastel '50s--to Doris Day comedies and Gene Kelly musicals--and, even earlier, to the studied innocence of MGM's teen tuners starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, but with a little sex. And even that is so sweet it's tweet. (In Broadway Damage two young lovers climb up a tree for their first kiss. No kidding.) It makes sense that O'Haver, who evokes the retro spirit with such expert elan, has signed with Universal Pictures...
...answers, centered, as we are, in the news and information capital of the world. We have sat on porches and in parlors, toured factories and roamed Main Streets. We will now take you to the fireworks capital of the entire galaxy--or at least of Pennsylvania--and whisk you into the clouds to meet the too-young millionaires in sandals and cutoffs who populate the top of a Dallas skyscraper (bloody video-game capital of the world...
...easily hidden under a shirt. The companies then advertise to criminals with felon-friendly claims, the suit charges, like the boast that the TEC-DC9 assault weapon offers "excellent resistance to fingerprints." And the weapons are distributed to gun shops that wink as straw buyers snap them up and whisk them off to be sold out of car trunks in high-crime neighborhoods...
Would it have been better in The Graduate if the church door had held, and Dustin Hoffman had not been able to burst in on the scene and whisk Katharine Ross away? In which circumstance would the damsel have been in greater distress? Does love really conquer all? That, I always thought, was the point of the movie...
...someone who would soon be getting just as much attention: Wei Jingsheng, China's most renowned dissident. The White House had been tipped off that Wei, who had spent most of the past 18 years in prison, would soon be released, and the Administration was helping make arrangements to whisk him away to the U.S. Since he was ailing and China was granting him a "medical parole," one of his first stops after leaving prison needed to be a hospital. And since the only nonstop route from Beijing to the U.S. on an American carrier was a Northwest Airlines flight...