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NICHOLSON: Well, that's right. You had to change things up, be a swine. [DiCaprio arrives] Leo, my boy...
...boy walk among unburied corpses, live on canned goods scavenged from wrecked houses, and hide from cannibalistic gangs--"men who would eat your children in front of your eyes"--who are all that's left of human civilization. The man's only goals are these: to remember a happy day on a lake with his uncle, to resist the temptation of suicide (the boy's mother gave in to it), and to crush all goodness and empathy in his son, so he won't waste their precious resources helping fellow survivors...
Sure, it's all very earnest. McCarthy doesn't name his characters--they're just "the man" and "the boy"--à la an Old Man and the Sea parody. And he's given to using precious archaisms--sometimes you wish he would just say "with his arms held out" instead of "with his arms outheld." (Outheld?) But none of this really matters. The Road is a wildly powerful and disturbing book that exposes whatever black bedrock lies beneath grief and horror. Disaster has never felt more physically and spiritually real...
...boy soprano. My mother still has clippings if you'd like them...
...other e-mail exchanges with the page, Foley discusses another boy who he remarks is "in really great shape - i am just finished riding my bike on a 25 mile journey now heading to the gym - what school like for you this year?" As a result, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a left-leaning congressional watchdog group, has asked the House Committee on Standards and Official Conduct to investigate, saying the legislators have "an obligation to protect the teenagers who come to Congress to learn about the legislative process." The committee, it said, "must investigate any allegation...