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...that Depeche Mode places at the core of these faux faith songs actually requires the kind of deep commitment that the band seems unwilling or unable to make. The gospel-tinged Get Right with Me cuts off before it culminates, just as the music and singing are reaching a climax. In other songs, the scanning of religious symbols becomes a numbing succession, like a bored teenager channel-surfing cable networks. Judas the betrayer. Zap. MTV. Zap. The heavenly host. It's religiosity chic and not the thing itself. Something essential is missing -- true faith perhaps. Zap. The trigger finger...
...water: the river that runs past his lows home. a different stream every day; the rhythm of its droughts and floods, in tune with Offutt's changing perspectives on his unborn child, and above all, the still waters of the amnion that houses the fetus. The novel reaches its climax in a narrative juxtaposition; Offutt braves a surprisingly mild hurricane in Florida as his wife's water breaks and his son is born, In both cases, Offutt's anxieties prove unfounded...
Spectators may connect more easily with the wives and girlfriends, who are more self-aware and pragmatically optimistic. But from the opening, when the boys demonstrate masochistic macho by withstanding each other's punches, to the climax, when all three are beaten, bruised and begging for unattainable forgiveness from their women, Aven'U Boys is a voyeur's journey into moral chaos. Sex is easy and often kinky -- the toughest of the boys has a secret taste for transvestites and whippings -- but in this world, love is an embarrassment...
SILENT SKI LIFT, DEADLY SKI LIFT (Fox): Movie of the Week. Lost skiers (Shannen Doherty and Susan Lucci) bitterly accuse their expedition guide (Corbin Bernsen) of leading them into the path of an avalanche. The movie reaches its dramatic climax when Bernsen refuses to give Doherty his sleeping bag until she asks for it a third time...
...production starring Tom Hulce at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum in 1988. Walker's work certainly travels. Although Escape was originally set in Toronto, Lewis' staging makes it feel entirely American, from the opening moment, when a battered TV onstage starts blaring The Donna Reed Show, to the snarling climax, when at least four people are pointing weapons at one another...