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Anyone who has seen the movie Seven will probably agree that it was excellent. The acting was intense, the plot was captivating and the skillful directing greatly heightened the dramatic impact of the movie. Watching Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman play off each other while portraying hard-nosed detectives was thoroughly enjoyable. And yet if I had known more about Seven before actually watching it last week in the Science Center, I would never have gone. After seeing it, I have come to regret that it was ever made...
...million in Arizona. In Iowa and New Hampshire he will spend at least twice what the law permits the other candidates to spend. His opponents claim the press has given him a free ride, whether charmed by the idea of an editor-king or just looking for a plot twist with which to torture the front runners...
...newspaper scenes, the habit of looking down on men in high places, the name of young Herman's bicycle: Rosebud. The two men privately insisted it was Hearst's pet name for Marion's sex. But that could be an impish trick, just as the whole Rosebud plot is--since, on the evidence of the film, no one heard Kane's dying word, so no one could search for its meaning...
...verisimilitude in capturing the political spectrum, Primary Colors transcends the genre in creating a plot that departs from literal campaign history to better illuminate Henry Burton's loss of innocence and voyage of self-discovery. The novel pivots around Libby Holden (very loosely inspired by Betsey Wright), the Governor's former chief of staff, fresh from the loony bin, who calls herself "the Dustbuster" and sets about to clean up the mess from the candidate's self-destructive personal life. Holden is the classic truth teller--bound to the Stantons, but also sadly clear-eyed about how their youthful idealism...
...nation's biggest terrorism trial ended with a lengthy harangue from Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman castigating the U.S. as the "enemy of Islam"--and a federal judge's imposition of a life sentence on him for his role in the plot to bomb major New York City landmarks. The nine co-defendants, who were convicted with the Sheik last October, received sentences ranging from 25 years to life. The judge said if the plan had been carried out, it would have caused "devastation on a scale not seen in this country since the Civil...