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...McGahern writes with a pure and plain grace, lighting up the spots of life hidden in confused, blundering places. In both "Wheels" and "Gold Watch," he shows two narrators, each in the process of becoming finally, completely estranged his father. In "Wheels," the narrator leaves, free and alone; "Gold Watch" ends with the narrator outside his father's house as the lights go out, newly married and happy in it. In each story, time continues exorably, and the prose carries the reader along effortlessly almost to the place that escapes us while engaged in the business of living. where time...
...alas, I am not the keeper of time, only a small part of history and the legacy of mankind's fall from grace...
...when the play begins, when movies capture the grace and crunch on the field or court or ice, it can be beautiful to watch. Films can't duplicate the 17-camera omniscience of the World Series on TV, but, as Shelton says, "I can put a camera where none of those 17 can go: on the mound, in the dugout or the shower." With such details, a sports film can appeal even when it is about spring training -- for how many other kinds of contemporary films actually show people working? An athlete's job may be more glamorous and hazardous...
...return address showed Lin's account as the message's point of origin. But the e-mail, it turns out, wasn't sent by Grace Lin, who is straight. Eric E. Blom '96, an acquaintance of the women, later admitted to sending the fradulent message as a practical joke...
...totally felt that it was a violation of mye-mail privacy," Johnson-Arbor says. "I wasdefinitely shocked. Grace and I were very closefriends and I knew that if Grace was going to tellme something like that she wouldn't to it in sucha tactless...