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Return of the Secaucus Seven. Seven veterans of the antiwar movement meet, on the cusp of maturity, ten years after. John Sayles wrote the year's wittiest screenplay, found humor and humanity in his subject...
...free-lance journalist has broadcasted the validity of the women's movement in Time, Atlantic Monthly and New York magazines. Her first book, The Girl I Left Behind: The Housewife's Moment of Truth and Other Feminist Ravings, is a collection of some of O'Reilly's wittiest and most perceptive essays and articles about being feminist in a man's world, about her evolution from a '50s "girl" who said she was going to Radcliffe to become a better wife and mother to a '70s successful professional who has trained her family to cook and clean while she types...
...play, his stiff gestures and forced, dramatic delivery remove all naturalness from his performance, making him look like someone trying toact. When he addresses the audience--as he does frequently--Goldstien fidgets, never quite knowing what to do with his hands. He ruins some of Dysart's wittiest (and in their wry humor, extremely revealing) lines by trying too hard to sound flip and sarcastic; he sounds, instead, like Clark Gable faking a British accent. Yet, Goldstien captures some of his character's most elusive qualities; perceiving the slender line between detached interest and perverse fascination, he expresses well...
...more than half of the U.K.'s population) stayed home to watch J.R. get his. On the news program that night, the BBC replayed the shooting as a news event, and a few days later offered a weekend for two in Dallas to the person who supplied the wittiest explanation for the crime.*(This summer the network is also providing a crash course in Ewingology: a rerun of all 54 shows, one a night.) British bookmakers seized on the golden opportunity. William Hill's set odds on the assailant's identity. (The favorite, at 6-4: Dusty...
Nick Lowe: Labour of Lust (Columbia). It's all in the title: carbolic little anthems to carnality, full of ironic world-weariness and melodies that take you by surprise. Love songs that draw blood by one of rock's wittiest writers...