Word: marvell
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Internal Affairs The year's best urban action film -- cool, smart and heartless -- is also a moral tale about the infinitely corruptive power of sexual attraction. Richard Gere's performance as a good cop gone rancid is a marvel of slipperiness...
...able to quit his assistant U.S. Attorney post in 1973, and eventually to leave off the practice of law altogether. That year he published a superb second novel (16th, counting those in the Rockland dump) called The Digger's Game. If somebody isn't teaching this small marvel in writing classes, then U.S. education is in worse shape than we have been told. Probably not, though; there is an indictable villainy or two in the plot, and Higgins is pigeonholed, wrongly but irretrievably, as a crime novelist...
...logistic marvel of supplying thousands of East German shops with Western products was brought off so smoothly and quietly that hardly anyone noticed. In the days before July 1, thousands of West German trucks rolled through the frontier posts, like so many military convoys, ferrying in goods most East Germans had only dreamed of. Used-car lots sprang up in small towns and along country roads hardly changed since the end of World War II -- time warp over and over again...
...they called "reading" copies? Does this mean that the copies themselves are literate, or that the copies are capable of being read? Assuming the latter, is the "reading" qualifier really necessary? What else are we pundits supposed to do with it? State in awe at the technological marvel of a "full-color cover...
...typical New York City fringe dweller. Maximilian Schell is in high, black humor as a madly galloping gourmet chef (you don't want to think too hard about his plans for that dragon). And Paul Benedict's pomposity, pretentiousness and venality as a film theorist are a little marvel of meanness...