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...Buoyed by its quick wit and never ending double entendres, the film does not shy away from using sexually charged references to both entertain and charm the audience. In fact it is in She Done Him Wrong that West coins one of cinema's most famous quotes to date, "Why don't you come up and see me some time?" It is after meeting and becoming immediately smitten with the priest from the next door mission that West utters these infamous words. This seems to be the first time that a man has not instantly fallen in love with...
...field of adult crime," says TIME legal analyst Alain Sanders. "There's a general get-tough approach to crime in America right now, and the experts have been telling us for years that in the case of youth violence, this response isn't borne out by the numbers." To wit: The chance of getting killed in school is one in 2 million, while seven out of 10 people think that school shootings are possible in their neighborhood. "Schools' main response to public perceptions of crime is to expel and suspend more children," says Jason Ziedenberg of the Justice Policy Institute...
...person, the John Pizzarelli Trio brims with galloping vitality and cheeky wit, but its albums have always been slickly overproduced. Here, the singer-guitarist has swapped the fancy overdubs for no-nonsense live-in-the-studio sound, and Pizzarelli, brother Martin on bass and Ray Kennedy on piano finally get to strut their superb stuff. Highlights: John charms to the max on his I Wouldn't Trade You, and the group burns on a Kennedy-penned tribute to master swinger Oscar Peterson called (what else?) Oscar Night...
...seem rather gruff at times--with black eyes that penetrate out from under bushy eyebrows, he can be scary to those who don't know any better--but he manages to connect with his charges through biting wit and genuine interest in what they're doing...
...Here: The 70's: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life (For Better or Worse) (Basic Books; 418 pages; $25), David Frum revisits, with a good deal of wit and a surprising ambivalence, what he calls "America's low tide." Popular memory tends to conjure the '70s as the bummed-out, banalized aftermath of the '60s, which were the authentic circus. Frum has a more interesting take. He considers the '60s, for all their noise and flash, comparatively inconsequential. "But the 'social' transformation of the 1970s was real and was permanent," he says. It left a country more dynamic, tolerant...