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They are threatened by de-globalization, falling outside of the world economy and slipping ever further behind."
He captures the show's mix of darkness, humor, and humanity--without slipping into the criminal-with-a-heart-of-gold cliché.
The screenplay, too, "succeeds in preserving the mandarin lyricism of Woolf's language without slipping into the 'poetic' " (Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker ). Critics also applaud Vanessa Redgrave's turn as the wistful middle-age English socialite--the only actress, says New York 's David Denby, "large enough to hold together this plotless story."
Following Ramses II, Ramses III built a vast mortuary complex at Medinet Habu but power was already slipping from royal hands into those of the exclusive and secretive priesthood known as the servants of Amun-Ra.
(And, thank God, nobody got around to slipping Prince's "1999" into a movie.