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...series, takes a no- frills, no-big-names approach to three first films by new directors. In Conquering Space, a girl discovers first lust, learns to drive and watches her family fall apart at pre-moonshot Cape Canaveral. In 12:01 P.M., a twitchy corporate flunky has terminal deja vu, condemned to repeat endlessly one hour of a single day. In To the Moon, Alice, a homeless family takes nightly refuge on the comfy set of a TV sitcom...
...nagging feeling of deja vu that plagues the viewer throughout The Freshman obscures some of the film's considerable accomplishments. The Freshman is about the rather rude introduction Clark Kellogg gets to the big city. Eager to start his first year at NYU Film School, he arrives at Grand Central Station and is immediately conned out of all his money and possessions by Victor Ray (Bruno Kirby). Kellogg meets up with Ray again and in order to make up for his past wrongs, offers him a job working for his uncle, Carmine Sabatini, a prominent importer with dubious business dealings...
Richard Ford's growing number of admirers may be puzzled at first by a sense of deja vu when they begin his new novel. Haven't we met people like this, in a similar landscape, somewhere before? Of course. In mood and subject matter, Wildlife seems to be a natural extension of Ford's highly praised collection of short stories, Rock Springs (1987); in fact, one of those stories, Great Falls, foreshadows the central plot of Wildlife. But to point out such similarities is not to suggest that the author is repeating himself. He is, rather, playing a longer, more...
NATION: Will a bold plan for deficit reduction turn into deja voodoo...
Prospective bidders include GTE, BellSouth and the Spanish national telephone company. But Puerto Rican labor leaders said they oppose the deal because a new owner might lay off workers. Deja vu? In 1978 the commonwealth proposed selling the phone company but canceled its plans when prospective buyers refused to guarantee job security...