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...film's major fault is that it drifts through the scenes of Buckeye Baisin and Cassie's life without really going anywhere. Nobody's Fool is another short film that seems very long. There are nice little scenes and nice minor characters, but these nice little things keep coming along without moving the movie very far. The film could have easily been tightened up around the characters of Cassie and Riley without much loss of subplot appeal...
...British, however, were themselves at least partly at fault because they had failed to prepare their European partners for the serious measures they were going to ask them to make. The French were caught in a particularly embarrassing position. Although Premier Jacques Chirac has taken a tough public line against terrorism, at the time the British broke off relations with Syria his government was engaged in furtive negotiations with Damascus, in an effort to forestall a further wave of bombings like those that terrorized Paris in September and to free the French hostages held in Lebanon. In pursuit of these...
People like this seldom make it into print nowadays unless they are lumped in with the latest unemployment figures or, even worse, written up in the police blotters of local papers. Dubus may have decided that such wasted lives are America's fault; he may even be right. But the case made by his fiction is far more complex and intriguing. In Rose, a nameless middle-age narrator starts chatting casually about a fellow habitue of Timmy's, a neighborhood bar in a town, once again in Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River. Her name is Rose; she is disheveled, disreputable...
...reminded of Dukakis as I watched first term Sen. Slade Gorton(R-Wash.) go down to defeat on Tuesday night. Gorton is earnest, straight and wants to do it right. He is honest to a fault, it appears...
Although some organizations repeatedly apply for and receive grants from the Foundation, minority group leaders fault the Foundation for not funding longer-term projects and say their organizations face an uncertain financial status each semester...