Word: guilts
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Nick Jeffrey's book, "Centerfield" (Floppy Comix; 32 pages; $3.50) reads like a suppressed howl of anguish and guilt, exorcized through a darkly humorous tale of the author's junior high school baseball exploits. Jeffrey depicts himself as a scowling, sullen teenager who never smiles once in the entire book. Though he has a professed hatred of sports, except for professional wrestling, he consistently joins the losing baseball team of his Catholic school. In his final year, two major events converge: the team gets a star player who takes them to the playoffs and Nick's father, who Nick adores...
...shadows of guilt hanging over Manderlay are longer and darker than in the other films, and speak to a crucial American social crime: the imposition and perpetuation of slavery. The second of a 1930s trilogy that began with Dogville, Von Trier's new work again has the redheaded Grace as its focus. (There she was played by Nicole Kidman, here by Ron Howard's daughter.) She comes to Manderlay, a plantation that has only now, 70 years after the Civil War, with the death of its owner Mam (Lauren Bacall), freed its slaves. But do they want to be free...
Court-martial rules require the accused to accept guilt in making a plea bargain. In entering her plea, England initially claimed she had just been following orders but changed her story after conferring with her lawyers for an hour. Graner's testimony was the last straw...
...really spent more time in theater than I did in my studies, though I took them both plenty seriously,” he says with that mix of guilt and thinly-veiled pride that most extracurricularly-oriented Harvardians show when talking about academics. “I was always a bit of a faker as a student. I didn’t give myself proper time...
...defy anyone to listen to Molina’s voice, tremulous with effort and feeling as it soars: “See I nailed my guilt to the back of my eyes so I see it now before the sun / Now who was I, now who am I, lord, what have I done...