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...smart federal law-enforcement officer, his wit informed by years of experience and buttressed by all the latest crime-fighting technology; a cunning, daring criminal managing always to stay just an infuriating half step ahead of his pursuer; a final confrontation that begins at a large, celebratory public occasion, proceeds to vertiginous grapplings along the edge of a big-city high-rise and ends with justice done by the narrowest, scariest of margins...
...wise man brilliantly attuned to Japanese customs. Crichton admits that he created Conner with namesake Connery in mind. Conner is really no more than a 90's version of the tutoring Chicago cop Connery played in Brian de Palma's "The Untouchables." Connery demonstrates his usual wit and sly self-confidence but never finds anything in the character that he hasn't played countless times before...
...discover a mysterious, close bond with others like you that is based on something much deeper than sex. What we share is unrelated to geography, religion or ethnicity. What links us is our feelings. This may be why there is such a thriving gay culture, filled with wit and celebration. Even the ravages of the AIDS epidemic haven't destroyed the gay spirit. Can you remove what makes a person gay and maintain that unique sensibility that has played a disproportionate role in the world's art and history? I don't think so. As the character of David Gold...
...beginning, Dubuffet appealed to Ubu buffs: people with a taste for the macaronic and the absurd, who saw in his work a visual resurgence of the antiauthoritarian wit whose chief image in French literature was the grotesque kinglet of Poland invented nearly a century ago by Alfred Jarry in his play Ubu Roi. From the moment Ubu waddled onstage and pronounced his first line, "Merdrrre!," the vaporous culture of Symbolism was on the way out and something newer and indubitably nastier was on its way in. "After us the Savage God," noted W.B. Yeats, who was in the audience that...
Nude Men is startlingly devoid of wit and singularly lacking in charm. Filipacchi's labored prose fails to update the idiom. There are no signal insights; little that is fresh or new. Filipacchi transforms what could have been a fascinating treatment of dealing with the consequences of dark, neurotic visions and succumbing to temptations into a turgid mess...