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...that reached for the eternal, not the momentary. By the later years of that decade, Renoir had lost his taste for the modern world anyway. As for modern women, in 1888 he could write, "I consider that women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters." ("The woman who is an artist," he added graciously, "is merely ridiculous...
...woman who is a goddess - or at least harks back to one - that's a different matter. It would be Renoir's aim to reconfigure the female nude in a way that would convey the spirit of the classical world without classical trappings. Set in "timeless" outdoor settings, these women by their weight and scale and serenity alone - along with their often recognizably classical poses - would point back to antiquity...
...central character, Kutcher undergoes the most changes over the course of the day and gradually wins over the audience with his combination of charm and down-to-earth attitude. In a film directed by the menopausal king of chick flicks, Garry Marshal (“Pretty Woman,” “Runaway Bride,” “Overboard,” and “The Princess Diaries”) it’s nice to see at least one character who isn’t a slimy, cheating scumbag...
Other actors fare equally poorly. Anne Hathaway, the Hasty Pudding Theatrical Society’s newly beloved Woman of the Year, is somehow both weird and unattractive. Hathaway, whose character moonlights as an unsympathetic accent-swapping phone-sex operator, should have had the opportunity to flex her acting muscles—as she did in “Havoc” when she loses her top and has group sex with Hispanic gang members, thus shedding her persona as “Princess Diaries” sweetheart. Hathaway can do much better...
...about the doctors I saw in Jakarta, the more horror stories emerge. One person I contacted reached a settlement in a similar case, though it cost her an eye. Others feared the prospects of a legal battle similar to one endured by Prita Mulyasari, a working class Jakarta woman who dared to criticize a local hospital and spent months facing down its lawyers. She has become something of an icon for all that is wrong with Indonesia's health care system. I don't know what I'll do yet, but I commend Mulyasari for having the courage to challenge...