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...talk about. Crowe does occasionally struggle with Nash's Southern accent, but there is a compelling conviction, an emotional openness (and humor) in his portrayal of a man living almost entirely within an increasingly frightening fantasy that resonates eerily with America's larger cold war paranoia. Connelly is equally fine as his beautiful, distressed but loyal wife. Finally, after he has been reduced to a near vegetative state by shock therapy and medication, there is authentic inspiration in Nash's decision to fight his way back to a semblance of sanity by using the power of his remaining sanity...
Mike seemed numb and detached. In curt monosyllables, he assured everyone that he was fine. Yet the pain seeped out in slight but revealing ways. Mike, who had helped build his father Robert's house, spent most of his free time tinkering with his masterpiece. "He kept forgetting things when he was working, or he'd bring the wrong tools. You could see he was within himself," says his father Robert. "It was almost like he was in a coma...
...replies the man's abused teenage wife and partner in crime. No social critic could express with more eloquence or economy the plight of the white-trash couple Rebecca Gilman chronicles in her deadpan, slice-of-lowlife drama. This 1997 play, having its New York premiere in a fine production directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman and starring Anna Paquin, is a stunner...
...panel you see the familiar face--that pale, egg-smooth, cold teenage mask--a girl soberly dressed in brown, the blue lacing of her bodice neatly echoing the blues of the far sky and the trees and water in the middle distance. Her blond hair frames her face in fine, tight ringlets. The painting prefigures Leonardo's later obsession with studies of the movement of water and air, not to mention his fondness for the similar hair of a future male lover, Salai--"beautiful hair, rich and curly," as he jotted on a page of his notebook...
...from public view. Now the modernizing mantle falls on little Princess Aiko, born Dec. 1. With no male sibling yet, she has set the nation to discussing the unthinkable: allowing a woman to ascend to the Chrysanthemum Throne. Surprisingly, more than 86% of Japanese think Empress Aiko sounds just fine...