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...Hours, the handling of Nolte's and Murphy's relationship is more sensitive and profound. Under their white or Black skins, they are not at all the same person. Nolte is a gruff, WASPish, bigoted cop, while Murphy the convict is affluent and civilized. Their developing friendship inspire of themselves provides the tender subplot to this tough movie...
...Israel, whose mutual suspicion and hatred seemed indelible. Not that Syria was overflowing with good feeling for the U.S. either. Kissinger tells how, as his plane was coming in for a landing during the Syrian shuttle, a U.S. diplomat on hand to greet him turned to Syria's waspish Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam and said: "I think the airplane is God's punishment to mankind." "No," replied Khaddam without changing expression, "America...
That is the premise of Death in a Tenured Position, the latest mystery by Amanda Cross. For the uninitiated. Cross novels feature the redoubtable Kate Fansler, a tenured 16th-century English literature professor at a New York City university, much like Columbia. Fortyish, WASPish, with a casual marriage to an assistant district attorney and a prodigious capacity for alcohol. Fansler moonlights as an academic sleuth. Leaving details like fingerprints and forensics to the police. Fansler sleuths by intuition and cunning. She does not carry...
...emerged from the cavity-prone years, but are not quite ready to compete with leaders of today. They move along quickly, rarely dragging, and, helped by ingenious choreography, the more lively numbers evoke all the electricity of a Singing in the Rain. John Stimpson's solos as Kip, the WASPish, lazy, grinning, beer-drinking jock and all-around good guy, are outstandingly funny, and Stimpson's equally expert singing and dancing, augmented by energy that must come from barrels of pure Saudi crude, provide some of the show's most entertaining moments. There are no holes in this cast...
...Ontario this season, a waspish Woolf out-tongues the Bard...