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It begins in a place we've all been -- a hopeless traffic jam -- and it proposes a solution most of us have entertained: dump the damn car and proceed on foot. Of course, most people think twice. But the figure played by Michael Douglas, and identified (from his customized license...
When he steps out of that automobile and heads for his sometime home far across Los Angeles, D-FENS steps into a contemporary urban nightmare. It's all here: panhandlers and drive-by shootings, a terrorized fast-food restaurant, even a neo-Nazi skinhead spewing hate. In effect, director Joel...
And the film's audience. For director Gyllenhaal has worked some striking variations on standard flashback technique, visual bestartlements that fling us, edgy and disconcerted, from 1974 Pittsburgh, where the film's framing action takes place, to England in the wartime '40s. There, in the Fens, the ; East Anglian coastal...
Now, however, some daring naturalists are starting to suggest that just as a smashed vase can be pieced back together and a war-torn cathedral reconstructed stone by stone, so too the battered remnants of natural masterpieces -- bogs and fens, forests and prairies, deserts and coral reefs -- may eventually be...
We poured across the streets and around the Fens, all 5000 or 8000 or however many of us there were, all headed toward Yawkey Way. Stop-and-go from about 8 a.m. on, as we wound our way under the Green Monster and past The Metro and Spinoff and around...