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...fact, it may turn out to be one of the better movies of the summer. It's got style, it's got wit, it's got danger and it's got a good-looking blonde who's pretty damn smart...
Consider the 911 tape released last week, which should have had the unambiguous effect of bringing the most die-hard O.J. fan to his senses. Instead of the silky-smooth patter of the blue-blazered N.F.L. sportscaster, the self-deprecating wit of the motivational speaker, here comes the coarse rant of a man who owns his ex-wife. He rampages through her home, breaking down a door, and you can hear how terrorized Nicole is, even as she begs her ex-husband to hold his voice down to keep from frightening the children...
...uses for everything from a Dungeons & Dragons-style game to London's Waterloo Bridge and has evoked laughs from such unlikely topics as a violent bank robbery and a young beauty's attempts to kill herself with the everyday tools and appliances of her suburban kitchen. Ayckbourn's originality, wit, poignancy and unfailing empathy for middle-class values have made him the dominant commercial voice in British theater. Belatedly, he is winning a significant following in America...
...aide to the implacable revolutionary Michael Collins. It is a period of shaky nerves in great houses, of informers, of men in overcoats lurking about with revolvers, of Dublin, as ever, "a notorious whispering gallery of rumor, malice, speculation, spiced always and made palatable, such was the claim, by wit and vivacity. Or bad manners passing as such." It is a time that devours its heroes, not always neatly. All this makes the author's concluding study of Irish history a fine, smoldering narrative, even if he can't provide an end to the hunt...
...audience to view the display with the Foucaultian clinical gaze that has become the bedrock of post-modern criticism. "Sharp Appetites" intelligently examines the history and contemporary situation of sexual politics with an analytical eye. Thought provoking and intelligent, the exhibition balances serious issues with biting criticism and wit...