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...watermelon. Some California farmers contend that their melons picked up the chemical from residues in fields where it had been applied to other crops years ago. Union Carbide insists, however, that its tests show aldicarb degrades to safe levels within 180 days. California Department of Food and Agriculture Director Clare Berryhill voiced "strong suspicions" that some farmers had knowingly misused the pesticide and added, "I'm going to use all the police powers I have to put them away. We are going to nail them to the cross." FOREIGN AID A Get-Tough House Package...
Unfortunately, the queens' cells had already been abandoned. Says California Agriculture Official Clare Berryhill, "We're pretty well convinced that we have two queens and their colonies out there...
Likewise, the music is fantastic. Céilí can be both upbeat and solemn, but in Clare it’s almost exclusively the former, a lively combination of flutes, fiddles, and bodhráns (a cross between a drum and tambourine) that makes it impossible not to tap your feet. Céilí is what binds the film, and the families, together...
Thus, the script must be the culprit. Clare attempts to come off as a fable, a timeless tale of family ties in a changing world. Since the story is one already deeply entrenched inside us, screenwriters allow for a painfully predictable plot. Unfortunately, the assumption fails and the writing comes off as formulaic and superficial. Lines like “I don’t want you ruining your life the way I did,” spoken to Anne by her bitter mother Maisie (Charlotte Bradley), sound like they would be better placed in daytime television. And the film?...
There are glimpses of touching authenticity in Clare, such as Anne’s reaction to a revelation about her past and John Joe’s relationship with Maisie, a woman he has long loved from afar. These characters are ordinary people, inherently flawed but attempting to get by as best they can. Ultimately however, isolated insightfulness and a great score cannot add up to much of a salvation to writing this unoriginal. Clare can’t offer the younger set much more than a glance at Woodstock’s (much) tamer Irish equivalent...