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...mean, the fact that defensive line-man Shante Carver, defensive back Clayton Holmes and wide receiver Cory Fleming have combined for five more drug suspensions is irrelevant...
Murakami--a cool 48-year-old who once ran a jazz bar, has translated John Irving, Truman Capote and Raymond Carver into Japanese and recently taught at Princeton--has been perfectly positioned to serve as the voice of hip, Westernized Japan. His Norwegian Wood (note the Beatles reference) sold more than 2 million copies around the globe. Yet none of his earlier books prepare one for his massive new The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Knopf; 611 pages; $25.95), which digs relentlessly into the buried secrets of Japan's recent past to explain the weightless, desultory disconnections of a virtual society...
...Sensibility) has directed this story of uneasy family relationships in the restless, promiscuous culture of the early 1970s with crystalline precision, leaving the audience to stare at the ugly and universal truths underneath. Ben Hood (Kevin Kline) is having a decidedly unromantic affair with his next-door neighbor Janey Carver (Sigourney Weaver), while his wife Elena (Joan Allen) is showing signs of being unable to put up with the charade of their 17-year marriage any longer. Their children, meanwhile, are beginning to discover sex and the perverse drama of human relationships in their own half-innocent, half-devious ways...
...partnerships, the hostess presents them with the bowl and says, with a devilish smile, "new this year!" It's too new for the Hoods, who don't quite know how to handle free love. Meanwhile, precocious Wendy Hood insists on wearing a Richard Nixon mask during foreplay with Mikey Carver (Elijah Wood). These details, however uncomfortably amusing, put the very local action of the film into a larger context. If the film's goal is to get at the depressing root behind all the ridiculous muck that clutters up their lives, then it is an unqualified success...
Playtime for the kids, on this Thanksgiving weekend of 1973, means sexual one-upmanship. Precocious Wendy Hood (Christina Ricci) insists on wearing a Nixon mask during foreplay with Mikey Carver and goads his shy younger brother Sandy (Adam Hann-Byrd) into a game of mutual exhibitionism. Wendy's brother Paul (Tobey Maguire) goes to a Manhattan party where, once again, a pretty girl treats him as just a friend. For the adults the big social event is a Key Party. The men drop their car keys into a bowl, the women blindly pick them out, and new sexual partnerships...