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...across a battlefield like Monty Python twits; the colonists see defeat approaching and run like dogs. But this seems less cynical impartiality than a failure of craft. The film's central characters have virtually nothing to do with the winning or losing of the war. Working-class Boatsman Tom Dobb (Al Pacino, whose bizarre Scots-Bronx accent sticks in the ear like a nettle) goes to war, quits and goes again. The patrician Daisy McConnahay (Nastassja Kinski) rebels against her snooty mother and sisters to become a kind of Cenderella Liberty, cheerleading Tom to cream those Brits. So does Annie...
...codes that have undoubtedly saved Americans millions of dollars in insurance premiums. It's time for those who wish to live in Hurricane Alley to build houses that are more wind- and water-resistant so my tax dollars don't have to subsidize federal insurance for their beachfront housing. Dobb Mayo Holland, Michigan Spain's New Man In his interview with time, Spain's Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero claimed that "sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength" [Sept. 27]. To repeat an old saying, That's like comparing apples...
...spend an extra $1 billion to $2 billion to upgrade the country's aging cable lines and offer cable telephony immediately--instead of gradually, as he had planned--he decided to walk away, as he often has at the last minute. "A very wise man," Liberty Media CEO Robert (Dobb) Bennett said at the recent stockholders' meeting, gesturing toward his mentor, "once told me the best investments are the ones you decide not to make...
...major dealers got hit. In fact, 86% of the "650 lifers" had never done time; 70% were poor. "A lot of them were young people who made very stupid mistakes but shouldn't have to pay for it for the rest of their lives," says state representative Barbara Dobb, the Republican who began a reform effort. In August, G.O.P. Governor John Engler signed a law allowing 650 lifers to be paroled after 15 years...
...become too heavy handed--particularly in the opening and closing scenes--this is a weakness more than compensated for by the quality of other performances. Richard Hope, a bull-headed, red-nosed, raucous Sir Toby Belch, dominates the comic scenes, but his presence is well supported by Linda Dobb's sharp Maria and Locke Bowman's fussy Sir Andrew. Sunny Tufts carries off the difficult part of Viola with grace and Mark Daniels as a quivering chinned Malvolio is inspired...