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The second free-spirit-mom-on-the-run-with-teen-age-daughter story in three months receives much better reviews than the first ( Anywhere But Here ): It "impresses with its freshly considered action and total avoidance of the stale and routine" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). British stage actress Janet McTeer's performance as the mother stands out, and the low-budget, genuine feeling of the film results in "one of the few movies ever made that doesn't feel like a movie," in which the characters "throb and course with life" (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ). (Click to read David Edelstein's review in Slate .)
The testimony clearly impresses the commissioners and seems especially to impress the three nonaligned commissioners who will be the swing votes on the June 1999 report.
Lethem's latest genre-bending novel, featuring a Brooklyn detective afflicted with Tourette's syndrome, impresses the critics.
McCain impresses voters with his passionate distaste for pork-barrel politics and wows reporters by answering every question with a fulmination on campaign finance reform.
What impresses me, in fact, is that with all the blather about "the new," there is a hunger for history, and for many people, the old is more relevant than the new.