Word: plot
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...plot - something about computer geeks double-crossing one another - is of no consequence. The film is essentially about displaying the Angels in ways that are titillating to adolescent males, yet give their dates the impression that something inspiring is being said about female empowerment. It is, on both counts, just a tease. The best you can say for this version of "Charlie's Angels" is that it retains a sort of chipper, eerie good nature as it wastes the studio's money and our time...
...taken the lead in the Cole investigation. Last week it got a break in another case when a former Army sergeant pleaded guilty to conspiring in the embassy-bombing plot, fingering Bin Laden as an associate. In Aden, FBI and Navy divers have set up a crime-scene grid on the bottom of the harbor to sift evidence systematically. The divers are searching it inch by inch for the remains of the bomb, the boat that carried it and the suicide bombers. Officials tell TIME that sailors aboard the Cole took snapshots as the ship arrived in port. FBI agents...
...production; it achieved this aim almost too well, with the result that it had some trouble retaining the delicate balance of humor and pathos that gives Bennett's play its special flavor. This story of a king whose reason slips away, whose Establishment wishes him gone and whose sons plot against him could make the material for a solemn biopic. Yet even the most dramatic moments in Bennett's play are punctuated with laughs and a tongue-in-cheek manner. The recreation of this difficult symbiosis between tragedy and farce was all the harder as the play's director brought...
Complications settle into the plot during the latter part of the first act when the Rajah gives the hand of his daughter Gamzatti to Solor in reward for his success as a warrior. Although he loves Nikiya, Solor does not feel that he can refuse the wishes of the Rajah. As Gamzatti, April Ball takes the stage with exceptional presence, bringing to the performance clear, insightful mime and impressive theatrical and technical versatility. Without dancing a single step in the first act, Ball holds full command of the stage, developing the dimensions of Gamzatti's struggles as a woman...
...meantime, a pride of diplomats, crossing paths and wires in a dark version of a play with no plot, suspended their disjointed efforts for a grand Middle East settlement and settled, instead, for a hastily arranged meeting to stanch the bloodshed. Buried in the rubble was not just the peace process, it was also our dreamy view of what the world was becoming. Confronted again with pictures of flag-draped coffins and mutilated bodies, with the sounds of random gunfire and angry chants, the world had to readjust to the fact that not every problem is solvable, that the global...