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...Columbia University professor Mark Van Doren, complimenting him on the movie adapted from his novel ?Black Angel.? Woolrich replied that he?d seen the film in a Manhattan theater and added, ?I was so ashamed when I came out of there. All I could keep thinking of in the dark was: Is that what I wasted my whole life...
...will make do with minor pleasures: Robinson?s walking-dead pallor as Triton (who calls himself ?a zombie in reverse?); Russell?s fragile beauty (she would drink herself to death at 36); the movie?s last words, that ?there are things on earth still hidden from us. Secret things, dark and mysterious.? Like the resolution of a Woolrich plot...
...Prime-cut Woolrich: the accused must corral the killers to exonerate himself. And who could be more helpless than a child - alone, abandoned, unbelieved - pursued in the dark by a murderer? This atmospheric thriller, shot almost entirely at night, tautens the suspense like rough hands around a little boy?s neck. Driscoll was a Disney star (?Song of the South,? ?Treasure Island?) who somehow knew the way to plant fear and grit on a winsome face. He makes ?The Window? one of the most modest and satisfying Woolrich adaptations. Driscoll earned a special Oscar for his acting that year...
...Russians are here, too. In Bishkek's bars, you can rub shoulders with off-duty troops from the newly opened Russian air base a few score kilometers away as they drink and dance to hard-core Russian techno. And in Fatboys, a popular café, men in suits and dark glasses talk about the region's geopolitical significance...
...economy grew in large part because, after years of mounting deficits that put a dark cloud over our economy, President Clinton and the Democratic Congress had the courage to change course. We got our government out of hock—easing a huge burden that was squarely on the backs of your generation. We cut taxes strategically to rev up the engines of growth. We made smart investments in education and other incubators of innovation. And we opened markets around the world. In short, we, like any successful business, had a growth strategy. We stuck to it. And it worked...