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There are times when less would not be more, when it would just be regrettably...less. Umberto Eco has argued, for example, that Casablanca works because it evokes every convention of the romantic-adventure genre. If it had missed even one or two of them, he suggests, it would have been just another forgettably routine wartime movie...
...would think that even a nation with the U.S.'s uncanny taste for inspirational improbability might be fed up with Men of Honor. But that may not be so. There's something refreshing about its utterly unembarrassed embrace of the familiar. The director, George Tillman Jr., either doesn't notice or doesn't give a hoot about the way Scott Marshall Smith's script piles up cliches. He just keeps driving his movie right on through them. What's true of him is true of his actors too. De Niro pitches his performance on the edge of psychopathy, where menace...
...Minister Ehud Barak's government is painfully misguided [ESSAY, Oct. 23]. But does Krauthammer truly believe that seven years of Israeli peace initiatives and negotiations with, and concessions to, the Palestinians should be enough time and effort to turn the tide on centuries-old religious and ethnic enmity? And even if he believes that, how can he suggest that Barak give up doing what is right in exchange for the military imposition of a peace that is no peace at all? In fact, as individuals we face our greatest opposition--even violence--when the actions we take and positions...
...your piece on a possible Electoral College vote tie [NATION, Oct. 23], you noted it is possible to win the electoral vote while losing the popular vote and that "it happened in 1888, when Benjamin Harrison defeated Grover Cleveland," even though Cleveland got 90,000 more popular votes. In case anyone has forgotten, it also occurred in 1876, when Rutherford B. Hayes defeated Samuel Tilden despite Tilden's slight majority of popular votes. Ultimately, the choice of Hayes as President was made by a committee vote along strict party lines; nevertheless, Hayes' election stands as a second example...
...film Pay It Forward was waaaaay too cynical [CINEMA, Oct. 23]. We were a better nation when Frank Capra was making those feel-good movies like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life. If Pay It Forward's director Mimi Leder and her cast can even come close to making us feel uplifted and inspire us to go out and practice random acts of kindness, then good for them. Our country could use a little "Capra-corn," even if it's a pale imitation. PAT PARRISH Los Angeles...