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...examine our lives too closely. Our way of life is predicated on our not taking stock; not getting off the career-overtime-promotion hamster wheel; not, God forbid, living each day as if it might be our last. Because who would spend that day in an airless cubicle or on the 8:30 to Denver? We needed to believe that civilian, commuter-consumer life is heroic. And Flight 93--a weekday flight carrying largely business travelers - rendered the term "road warrior" literal...
Whereas a conservatory is structured around the many hours of practice each day, Harvard is clearly not. The availability of practice space also causes problems especially when practice rooms are open for a mere three hours on Saturday. Freshman practice rooms are often intolerably cramped and airless, house rooms are often little better, and the department building can seem dauntingly far away for many. Thus students often are forced to practice in their rooms or create makeshift practice areas...
...tunnel action is shared by a few Rafah clans. The stretch of border by Block O is tunneled by the Shouarahs; the Akhras clan digs beneath Block J. Most tunnels are terrifyingly narrow--2 ft. by 2 ft.--built without supports, and increasingly long, airless and dangerous. You would have to be desperate to claw your way through the earth like this. But with unemployment at 65%, Rafah isn't short of despairing men. The tunnels are their best hope. "This town would be a disaster if you couldn't smuggle across the border," says Fayez, a bootlegger who declines...
Movies have changed since the '70s, and not for the better. The artistic bar is not only low, it's practically closed. Back then filmmakers were addicted to audacity; they wanted to make both art and waves. Now they are craftsmen who want to make a bundle. In this airless atmosphere, Redux is both a reminder of American cinema's last glory days and a rebuke to the timid present. Maybe Apocalypse Now wasn't the best movie of 1979, but Redux is surely the film to beat...
...goes the dainty violence, nonetheless, for reasons that are somewhat understandable and forgivable, somewhat not. Writers tend to live in dank, airless cells of self-recrimination. Nothing is ever as good as it should be, and sometimes it is plain awful. Realizing what they have done, they hate themselves, frequently showing excellent judgment, and commit murder instead of suicide...