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The NYT take on the Israel-Syria talks mentions a prosaic angle behind the sudden turn of events: Yasser Arafat is scheduled to see President Clinton at the White House on Thursday and the Syrians didn't much relish "languishing" down in West Virginia during those festivities.
In contrast, it is now the site of frequent festivities, with magnificent flower displays and sparkling fountains.
It's the critics who are in love: Gwyneth Paltrow is gorgeous, Joseph Fiennes is dashing, and the movie is "smart and giddily entertaining" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Fiennes' young Will Shakespeare has an affair with Paltrow's character that becomes the basis for Romeo and Juliet . Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman's screenplay is full of amusing references to Shakespeare plays, but is not so erudite that it won't please crowds, and the dialogue "percolates with bubbly finesse" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The New Yorker 's David Denby puts a slight damper on the general festivities: He says the film starts out muddled, though it livens up by the end.
Assemblies, homecoming week festivities, car wash fund-raisers, pep rallies, proms, graduation ceremonies--these rituals instill in their participants the "school spirit" that persuades many alumni to return to town every five years for reunions to celebrate high school's glory days.
With various seasonal festivities fast approaching, why not consider gifts that say, "I like you from a perspective far to the right of most Americans."