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...this is fine, if a little too stridently observed--see David sweat in slow motion. But then he finds his true love (Lynn Redgrave!) and Shine takes a dive into soapsuds. The film ceases to be a cogent study of the disease of genius and devolves into two lesser creatures: an ordinary weepie and an Oscar contender. Shine is not an instrumental but a choral work--a trusty hymn to the human spirit. You will be moved, ladies and gentlemen. Perhaps that is all you, and the Academy, need to know...
...takes me all over the grounds, inside the sparsely populated grandstand and the even less crowded restaurant. The place is anything but a dive--it's large, clean and very charming. There are hundreds of televisions scattered all over the recently revamped of televisions scattered all over the recently revamped facility, but somehow, it retains the feel of an old fashioned amusement park. Scores of people say hello to Bob and I begin to see what he means about the age of the clientele. It's hard to find a person under...
Here's a short, gritty novel whose elegant construction calls to mind the way Greg Louganis used to dive and Larry Bird and Kevin McHale used to work the back-door play. "Yes!" the amazed onlooker would realize, watching these masters. "That's how it's done!" Madison Smartt Bell's Ten Indians (Pantheon; 272 pages; $23) catches child psychiatrist Mike Devlin just short of burnout, mortally sick from seeing damaged children. He is no longer surprised, for instance, to notice an eight-year-old boy who has come to him with cigarette burns on his body scissoring the crotches...
Bergen says that for many faculty members who may be reluctant to dive into computing, the ICG helps make people comfortable...
...State of the Union message will be more exciting because you never know if Bob will stage dive and surf the crowd...