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Scott Fusco smashed the all-time Harvard goal-scoring record at Cornell Sunday--and did it with a flourish...
...alone. At one time or another, all of us want to escape to some haven, away from our lives and our commitments. Modern society, for all its material pleasures, is too often without social support. Communities must be small if they are to flourish, but "bigger is better"--not "small is beautiful"--is the modern credo...
...fair, though, blame for its demise should be spread among several conspirators. Director Ted Kotcheff greedily sought to corner Quebec's French-Canadian market (Joshua was made and expected to flourish in Montreal) by casting Gabrielle Lazure, a French-Canadian starlet, in the lead role of Joshua's whitebread bedmate. This idea backfired, however, because the real Lazure has a strong accent, immediately conspicuous to the Montreal ear. To patch this up, her lines have been dubbed by a monotoned off-screen actress whose voice doesn't at all sound like it comes from Lazure's body. Plainly, a huge...
...short, Young has shown that he can flourish in Nashville, and declared on "Old Ways" that that's where he wants to stay. On its own, "Old Ways" is an adequate country album, more than sufficient for a genre not noted for its iconoclasm. But by the standards of Young's repertoire it's a weak album. Fortunately, the course of his career suggests that he'll do better--much better--next time...
Characteristically, Fowles recounts it all with the kind of narrative flourish that calls into question its own flourish. He writes in a pastiche of Daniel Defoe's 18th century documentary style, a la Robinson Crusoe or A Journal of the Plague Year, but occasionally interrupts in his own voice to take over the narrative or to recast his themes in a 20th century perspective...