The movie starts off with separate vignettes in which the characters run afoul of each other, say things better left unsaid, and get into terrible trouble.

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And the screenwriters, Andrew Bergman and Robert Harling, wring fun out of fustian and keep the shallow characters on the run.

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Characters walk rather than run.

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But, you know, it's so thoroughly run through the characters I've developed for the situation, that the incidents are entirely new.

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These machines use technology similar to videogame consoles of five years ago but have full-sized keyboards, display Chinese characters on a TV screen and can run a wide variety of educational and entertainment software.

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"Nemo's" solid box office run will keep the film's characters (and appeal) alive as audiences wait for the recently announced Finding Nemo 2.

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Crafting the first several installments was as agonizing as a trip to the dentist, but by the end of the run, at least I knew exactly where my characters and story were going.

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There was also a selection of lies relating to "fantasy characters", also used to enforce good behaviour, such as in the run-up to Christmas.

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The characters from Mystic no. 23 (September 1953) could give those glitter demons in Twilight a run for their money.

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The quiet strength of Penny Dreadful is once again the way the characters interact, the relationships between the eccentric, often elderly tenants and the crowd of rambunctious children that have the run of the place all summer.

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