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Article: `The Devil Wears Prada'.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- June 30, 2006
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Byline: Philip Wuntch
The fashion-world comedy achieves this plum by resuscitating the almost-dead virtue of dynamic dialogue. It's a given that any film set in the haughty confines of haute couture would be great to look at. ``The Devil Wears Prada'' is also great to listen to.
Meryl Streep is divinely funny as the snarling editor of a fashion magazine called Runway. The master of all she surveys, Streep's character of Miranda Priestly is a lioness that never sleeps. With one raised eyebrow, she deflates a designer's ego. With the flair of one nostril, she destroys an underling's self-esteem. Contradictory though it may seem, Meryl is magnificently ...