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...technology. Two and a half years behind schedule, troubled by seemingly endless snafus and cost overruns that brought the total bill to $9.9 billion, "America's space lemon" finally has a chance to silence scoffers. Just as the 15th century caravels of Christopher Columbus -the shuttle's distant namesake-pointed the way to the New World, so Columbia will open the door to the practical day-to-day use of space...
...what he's doing--maybe his vision is unfailing--but somehow there's always this nagging incompleteness in his movies. The confidence of a genuine masterwork seems to seep out of Five Easy Pieces, but it's almost impossible to tell why. He has an obsession with isolated, emotionally-distant characters, and he shows them with remarkable clarity. One wonders, though, if he's really exploring them. The King of Marvin Gardens might have been his best movie, but it was hell to sit through even though Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern were clearly doing something extraordinary...
What Rafelson ends up with, then, is a period piece, haunting in its intensity, but ultimately, distant and emotionless. We end up watching it like clinicians. Maybe disgust and rage really are apt subjects for nostalgia--and a lot would probably say that it's a good thing. But maybe that's what they really meant by the Big Sleep...
...England Age Group Championships in early March, the Harvard-based team mopped up the competition with a combined total of 1508 points. Little Rhody was a very distant second with...
...only sells well for a season but continues to sprout on bedside tables and school reading lists for years afterward. John Knowles, 54, did just that with his first novel, A Separate Peace (1960). Its story of prep school rivalry and love, set in the early 1940s against a distant but beckoning war, seemed to many a near perfect distillation of adolescence, a nostalgic memoir about an end to innocence and an athlete dying young...