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Yvonne Roemer as Ada plays the role with powerful spite, and as the initiator of most of the action, prods the other characters into deeper levels of hatred. She is vehement. The three post-teeny boppers, played by Jessica Yager, Bess Wohl, and Rashida Jones, are bubbly and keep effervescing until the climax leaves them flat. The two widows, played by Rebecca A. Murray and Jenni Paredes, provide timely comic relief; their speech oscillates between keen observation of the way things used to be and transparent example-setting for why they must change...
...spite of these propitious signs, the Chinese face one great problem in achieving menacing superpower status--they're isolated. The Soviet Union openly maintained alliances in, and sent arms to, every corner of the world, from Cuba to Syria to Madagascar to Vietnam. The United States and the Soviet Union were constantly at odds in every sphere of influence. One power tried to propound democracy while the other strove to spread Communism. The Soviets also had their own orbit of similarly modelled republics--an effective buffer to the West...
...bring radical change to companies that desperately need it. Put Kodak in that category. Though the company enjoyed a healthy cash flow from sales of all those little yellow boxes of film, it never seemed able to get costs under control or high-tech products successfully launched. In spite of numerous restructurings, the company posted losses of $1.7 billion on revenues of $11.9 billion during the first nine months...
...spite of the volumes of dream studies andthe hordes of academics who have devoted theirlives to dream analysis, the interpretationcontinues to puzzle the experts...
...Michel Serrault's stunning performance as the infamous doctor. He plays the murdering madman perfectly, prancing about gleefully as he empties the pockets of his dying patients, but he shows his real talent in the scenes where the delicate facade of the doctor threatens to break down. In spite of himself, the doctor punches a patient in the stomach to see whether an ulcer is improving, closes doors on his patients' feet, and seems more hurried and harried than he should be. But his patients, unlike the audience, never suspect a thing, and the mortality rates of Dr. Petiot...