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New York 's David Denby says it proves Leigh "digs deeper into people than any other director now working in movies."
Just when you thought it was safe to assume that we now know all we are ever likely to know about the past, someone digs another hole and unearths (literally or figuratively) some ancient artifact: one day it is a fragile scroll, found in a cave near the Dead Sea, that turns out to be pre-Biblical; the next day it is an entire terracotta army of Chinese soldiers: the next it is a skull, excavated from the Olduvai Gorge, that compels anthropologists (once again) to revise their guesses about the earliest stages of Homo sapiens sapiens vs hominids.
Most news accounts concluded that Clinton overshadowed Jones with a funny, largely apolitical speech featuring digs at Congress ("a show about nothing"), the press corps ("I hardly have any time to read the news anymore.
Washington's new mayor, Anthony A. Williams, wants to move the beleaguered University of the District of Columbia from its affluent Northwest Washington digs to Anacostia, the District's poorest and most isolated area.
Jesse Helms staffer), who digs up embarrassing information on administration nominees and campaigns against them with critical op-eds and by otherwise purveying damaging tidbits.