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Excluding overtime pay, only $172,000 had been initially allotted this year for snow and ice removal, said both Holland and Cambridge City Councillor Alice K. Wolf...
This season's 72 inches of snow may end up costing the city about $300,000 this year for supplies, overtime pay and funds for independent contractors, said David R. Holland, principal budget analyst for the Cambridge Budget Department...
Agnieszka Holland, the Polish woman who made Olivier Olivier in France, has obviously not seen a lot of American TV. So she is free to imagine the force of domestic disaster as centrifugal, not centripetal. The result is an awkward film that moves one not toward pity but toward dark reflection on the unbearable chaos that always shadows -- as we tend to forget -- ordinary being...
What the Duvals require is a miracle, the restoration of Olivier, the sunny source of their little universe's gravitational power, and after the passage of a few years, Holland provides them with that astonishment. He appears in the unlikely form of an adolescent Parisian street hustler (Gregoire Colin). But the Duvals, even skeptical Nadine, are not inclined to question him closely. If he is a lie, he is the saving lie they all need, and in the end he does accidentally provide the definitive answer to the mystery that has riven them...
...Holland does not cloak that riddle as well as she might, and her variation on the Martin Guerre (or Sommersby) theme is predictable. But as she showed in last year's Europa, Europa, she also has a way of administering jolts from the blue that usefully subvert our narrative and moral expectations. The value of this bleak film, which says that the family, like any other institution, requires agreed-upon fictions to sustain itself, derives from that talent...