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...rounds from both hands. While it would be a stretch to see Tom Hanks' somber, journeyman character pulling off such a stunt, the comix version has a more exaggerated tone appropriate to its milieu. The movie and book take from the tropes of their respective mediums. Where cinematographer Conrad L. Hall evokes the dark tones of "The Godfather," English illustrator Richard Rayner's black and white drawings come right out of the illustrated pulp novels...
...second, perhaps more important to the success of the movie, is its brilliantly calculated style. The sun never shines during its first half. It's all winter light, pelting rain, dimly lit mansions--superbly realized by the great cinematographer Conrad Hall. But as the Sullivans scurry across the lonely Midwestern flats and as the lifelong silence between father and son begins to lift, so does the surrounding darkness. That Hanks at last finds redemption--that his son finally finds what's best in his father's nature--is an irony that is broadly but beautifully stated...
...mail is really as addictive as gambling, there must be a 12-step program somewhere to treat it. Sure enough, a Web search turns up an e-mail recovery program created back in 1997 by a pair of Florida State University administrators, Perry Crowell and Larry Conrad. It's pretty crude, Crowell admits, and because it was written before the explosion in users, traffic and e-mail viruses, it seems almost naive. "If we were to update it today, we might very well declare defeat," says Crowell...
...mail is really as addictive as gambling, there must be a 12-step program somewhere to treat it. Sure enough, a Web search turns up an e-mail recovery program created back in 1997 by a pair of Florida State University administrators, Perry Crowell and Larry Conrad. It's pretty crude, Crowell admits, and because it was written before the explosion in users, traffic and e-mail viruses, it seems almost naive. "If we were to update it today, we might very well declare defeat," says Crowell...
...that's not the game we're currently playing. What's happened in America since last September is that we have been, in effect, Europeanized. Over there, some time in the 19th Century, with the rise of revolutionary and anarchist movements - see, for example, Conrad's "The Secret Agent" or any number of Hitchcock movies - the possibility of the bomb on the crowded bus, the assassination in the concert hall became a possibility that ordinary citizens learned to live with. The immediate cause of World War One was such an act. Safe behind our oceans, we Americans were largely spared...