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...voice capable of Sinead O'Connor's sharp, breaking tone as well as softer, folk-like sound, McLachlan has a wide palette to work with in creating her works, even when few other instruments are included. She displays all of O'Connor's intensity on "Wait," a beautifully wrought song that sets all the torches aflame. On "Ice Cream" a combination of drums, piano and vocals create a catchy tune, set to a swingy rhythm and simple chord progression that fits the song's upbeat message that "your love is better than ice cream...
...Getaway" is an action-packed remake of an earlier film that starred Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw. Although the newer version is generally predictable and wrought with clinches, some of the exaggerated character and unlikely premises make for two hours of high camp...
...rate attorney (Denzel Washington) to defend him. Can the case against these powerful solons be won? And if so, will Andy be alive to savor the victory? Philadelphia's agony lies less in these questions than in Andy's drastic deterioration. Hanks so scrupulously, heroically mimes the wasting wrought by the disease, from chest lesions to a 30-lb. weight loss, that Jonathan Demme's film ultimately becomes a documentary on the ravages of AIDS -- and on the masochistic machismo of Method acting...
...measured tone of a well-trained attorney, and did not play the victim, weep or rely on recounting the destruction of her life to make her case." Typically, the author does not develop her thoughts about Hill's impact. Instead we get a list of 26 specific "changes" wrought by the hearings, followed by 30 more general citations of their cultural impact, and finally an unfocused roundup of global repercussions that includes the election of Ireland's President, Mary Robinson. Enough already. In fact, far too much...
...born with many advantages. In his native Jamaica, Ferguson attended the exclusive Calabar boys' high school, an academy that numbers among its alumni Percival Patterson, the island's Prime Minister. The Fergusons lived in a two-story home protected by walls and wrought-iron gates in Kingston's elite suburb of Havendale. His father Von Herman Ferguson was one of the most prominent businessmen in Jamaica. When the elder Ferguson died in a car accident in 1978, his funeral was attended by government and military luminaries. However, that passage -- and the subsequent death of Ferguson's mother from cancer -- shattered...