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...public face of U.S. diplomacy in the Vietnam era, dour, obdurate Dean Rusk never apologized, rarely explained and, after leaving office in 1969, even declined to write his memoirs. Alienated by that flintiness -- and by the war -- Rusk's son Richard fled home in 1970 for a succession of dead-end jobs in Alaska. He returned 14 years later with a tape recorder and a determination to make his father talk. The result is an affecting mix of diplomatic memory and filial rediscovery...
...addition, Harvard's tenure system--which Bokhas been unwilling to reform--has given theUniversity a reputation as a dead-end for manyjunior faculty around the country...
...kissproof lipstick. His life was as eccentric as his films. How does Donald Spoto make it read like forced labor? Some biographies, the good ones, offer a vivid picture of the artist's life. Others, like Spoto's, remind you of the biographer's trudge through library morgues and dead-end interviews. Sturges' film world was so open to American experience that even a bartender, asked for a special concoction, could exclaim, "Sir, you rouse the artist in me!" In Spoto, Sturges hardly rouses the pedant. Fact is, though, Hollywood frequently roused the artist in its cynical convoy of screenwriters...
True to its theme of emotional cannibalism in a dead-end society, The Cook has plenty of eating and excreting. Its characters, sad creatures swathed in Jean-Paul Gaultier couture, gorge on their own swollen hunger for sex, control, revenge. Similarly, Greenaway -- inspired by Jacobean revenge plays and Dutch masters' paintings -- stuffs the viewer with ripe images and raw language. He tests your appetite for intelligent sensation. For many it may be a daunting test, but it is worth taking. Elegant and rancid, this movie rates an X as in excellent...
...more family: a grade school dropout and his wife and children live on the poverty wages they make at their minimum-wage, dead-end $3.35/hour jobs. He sweeps up and runs errands at a downtown restaurant, she does domestic labor. They work eight hours, Monday through Friday, and half a day on Saturday. Would you believe they are actually better off than one-fifth [13 million] of the households in these United States? If that dead-end couple are Black, then their wages make them better off than 45 percent of all Black households! They, and not the glossy...