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...achievement: movies rarely create a world this lifelike and treat the past with such devastating honesty. Lee deconstructs family relationships and social unease with as much ardor as he amplified the joyous heart of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. One wishes, though, for some greater redemption to fully flesh out the lives of its characters. The ice storm in this film, as a natural symbol of change and the wiping away of sins, is like Noah's flood without the rainbow...
...Starvation was so severe that people tried to eat dead people's flesh. But the corpses didn't have any flesh on them, only skin, which was very tough to eat. Some caught worms and ate them. I tried but decided I'd rather die," she said...
With regard to our recent national history, Boogie Nights is, again, right on the money. Our collective capacity to learn a moral lesson is non-existent. The flesh, drugs and rock and roll of the 1970s gave way to the rape erotica, harder drugs and Boy George of the 1980s. When we hit rock bottom, rather than mend our ways, we opted to re-define some terms. Redemption was no longer associated with reformation. It came free with apology. Broken families were simply replaced by a new definition of family. For those who left their wives and children penniless...
...determine whether or not the placebo is "much ado about nothing"; co-authors Arthur Shapiro and his wife Elaine present the reader with a flurry of esoteric yet entertaining historical tidbits. Though the knowledge that the 17th-century drug called "Vigo's plaster" was made of viper's flesh, live frogs, and worms may not necessarily be the best conversation-starter, such detail paints an elaborate portrait of the blind, haphazard healing practices of prescientific medics at which even the least scientifically-inclined person can gasp and chuckle...
...addition to Scapicchio, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, Governor A. Paul Cellucci and Attorney General L. Scott Harshbarger '64 were also pressing the flesh at the Sunday morning breakfast and roast...