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...there's music aplenty in Carpenter's voice, in the emotional precision of her words, in the world she weaves. Take Where Time Stands Still, which will get no radio play but sounds like a piano-bar classic about the haven of love. Years from now, some chanteuse with wise eyes and a whiskey voice will be singing that "Memory plays tricks on us,/ The more we cling, the less we trust,/ And the less we trust the more we hurt,/ And as time goes by it just gets worse." Then the guy at the end of the bar will...
Probably because it's been postmodernized. Previously Terry (Annette Bening in the new version) was a virgin, perkily defending that status while the threat to her innocence, Mike the Playboy (Warren Beatty), was shadowed by Catholic guilt about his careless ways. (Remember those poignant visits to his wise old auntie's chapel?) These scruples served two functions: they heated up forbidden desires, and they gave a certain bent logic to the three-month hiatus the couple imposed on their affair, ostensibly to shed other commitments, really for the chaste contemplation of this one's radical implications...
...That wise counsel was ignored, as was a profusion of red flags that marked the sorry career of Aldrich Hazen Ames, 53, who was finally convicted last April after spying nine years for the Soviet Union. Intelligence documents obtained last week by TIME, including parts of the CIA inspector general's report on the Ames case, illustrate how badly the agency bungled its handling of the agent. Strong evidence of his poor performance, and later his treason, were ignored for years by an old-boy network that included friends of Ames' father Carleton, himself a hard-drinking CIA veteran...
...regret the inconvenience to our students," Epps said. "But experience has taught us that it is wise to take such measures...
...Woody Allen and co-writer Douglas McGrath have comically and affectionately reimagined the archetypes of backstage dramas from the days when the New York theater was a robust and glamorous institution. They're all here, doing their best to bring David's neo- O'Neillian work to life: the wise, temporizing, desperately undercapitalized producer (Jack Warden); the aging ingenue (Tracey Ullman), complete with ill-tempered lapdog; the agreeably self-destructive leading man (Jim Broadbent); above all, the Great Lady of the Theater ("I don't play frumps or virgins"), portrayed by Dianne Wiest in a boldly swooping performance...