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...movie script improves on the novelette in two basic ways: by what's added (the whipcrack pungency of Odets' dialogue) and what's missing. Sidney no longer has a souring affair with J.J.'s secretary. (The boy is all ego, not libido; he's too busy screwing his clients to waste time screwing a secretary.) Also gone are the interior monologues, and good riddance; Sidney has no soul to confide to us. But he has a handsome line of patter - a slick pitch (most likely a spitter) for shoddy merchandise. He stops you on the street, talks fast, and suddenly...
...phenomenal problems affecting those within this system don’t even apply to the estimated 38.5 million Americans who remain uninsured or the millions of others who still scrape by on insufficient government aid. Extending basic health care to these citizens is a critical national priority. The federal government should guarantee a minimum standard of coverage to every American via social insurance—allowing doctors and hospitals to remain private...
...even a new cease-fire can buy Sharon much respite from Israel's basic dilemma over the West Bank and Gaza. If a truce is concluded, it's simply Step 1 on the path prescribed by the Mitchell and Tenet plans back to negotiating a two-state solution with Arafat. And if it fails, it simply plunges Israelis - and Palestinians - ever deeper into the horrors of a present that cannot hold...
...outfits—the ones that work and the ones that don’t, for instance. A little honey wearing a white mini-skirt with a huge black belt gets a thumbs up. Apparently, she’s doing a much better job at pairing the two most basic colors on earth than the woman wearing a tutu looking, 80’s-esque ball gown with crazy zigzag patterns or the woman caught wearing (gasp!) polka dots...
...welfare in this country are white and the largest group that benefits from affirmative action is white women. Also, his claim that the civil rights laws are a form of reparations is ludicrous. Since when did such things as voting rights and desegregation qualify as reparations and not basic citizens’ rights...