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And yet, although Kincaid never says this so grandly, you get the sense that Drew's death somehow prompted her to look at life differently, from a less narrow point of view, perhaps, and that the discoveries this book relates might eventually spill over into her fiction.
Critics ignore the absurd premise--a cop (John Travolta) and a villain (Nicolas Cage) each undergoing plastic surgery to look like the other one--and take unabashed delight in the movie's "grandly operatic pulp" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Reviews credit Woo with giving violence "balletic grace" (Todd McCarthy, Variety ) as well as "moral gravity" (Richard Corliss, Time ). Cage and Travolta are deemed "two of the most daring, physically intuitive, soulful performers on screen" (Ansen).
In Gates' essay, those who would favor a stand of principle over the ties of blut and boden (or even business)--whistle-blowers, antiwar dissenters, anyone who says "I often place my duty to society above my duty to my company"--are characterized as "William Godwin types all, letting their own dear mothers burn to a crisp with nary a second thought while they grandly escort some silk-bedizened cleric to safety."
The magazine also introduces a redesigned front section, which grandly aims to chronicle "The Way We Live Now."
Although not the first grandly heroic piano concerto--Mozart's K. 503 arguably merits that description--the "Emperor " proclaimed its grandeur in an especially aggressive way, and in so doing, became the model for concertos of the Romantic era.
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