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...check the operation of a vague generality under fire, take the typical example, "Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." The question is asked, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening his essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If these be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really...
...Mike Kiedel is always our hero," Cornue said...
Michael's friends mourned him as a smart, hardworking, bighearted man who, had he died a little sooner or a little later, might have been remembered as a hero. He founded a university in Angola, gave loans to women-owned businesses in Ecuador and ran a company that supplies heat to 147 homeless shelters in Boston. He spent much of his life doing generous things, but just enough doing reckless things to join the long index of scandals and self-destruction in untold Kennedy histories to come...
...expect one of them to pull out a cell phone, this could mean that the author has utterly failed to counterfeit the past. Or--take your choice--that he has so successfully blown the dust off history that it reads like tomorrow's front page. At any rate, the hero is a respectable Arizona cowboy and bank robber named Ben Tyler, who is caught running a freighter into Havana with saddle horses on the manifest and weapons for anti-Spanish guerrillas hidden in the hold...
Speaking realistically, though, the leap from familiar suburban mailcarrier to action hero is a lot to ask of the moviegoing public. And Costner is not the actor to ask it. His Postman is supposed to be a traveling actor (the first of many ironies) who uses his charm and chutzpah to snowball the entire American West into believing that a new government has been created (in Minneapolis, of all places) and that postal routes are being reestablished all over the country. Costner, however, is so devoid of charisma and conviction that you wonder why anyone would believe...