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But the NYT and especially the WP wade into the details, and even though Bill Clinton told Senate Democrats yesterday at a White House meeting that Starr's report would contain "no surprises," some of the details are new: Lewinsky testified that on two occasions she engaged in a sex act with Clinton while he talked on the phone with members of Congress (say both papers) and the WP prints the Dutch Master-bator tale of Drudge Report fame that according to her, the two once used a cigar as a prop in a sex act.
The old western was almost always a tale of a courageous loner imposing order on lawlessness, as in the Wayne films and Shane (1953).
Some like it: a "foxy, snotty, enjoyably trashy update," says Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly . Others find the idea of such young actors in this tale of sexual intrigue and betrayal ridiculous: "The liaisons here aren't dangerous, they're incongruous" (Jami Bernard, the Daily News ). Critics are either entranced by the youngsters' acting or find the whole concept of fresh-from-the-WB kids as Vicomte De Valmont and Marquise De Merteuil "faintly ridiculous" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). (This site has links to information on all the film versions of the novel, as well as sound clips and photos.)
And with details like that, García Márquez's narrative of the kidnapping, the sequestering of the victims in their different safe houses, the efforts by the husband of one of the victims to get the president of Colombia sympathetically involved, the drawn-out negotiations, the months of incarceration, a killing, then another, the intervention of a half-mad television priest, the release of the survivors and, at last, the surrender of Escobar himself--this tale, like a tropical downpour, conjures up a brilliant leafy-green Latin Americanness.
In 1988, IBM established the "Tale of the Tape" program, devising a system by which home-run distances could be estimated.
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