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...fact, the devotion of the Fenway faithful was last rewarded with a world title in 1918. This year, the followers of the American League East Champion Sox are laying their hearts on the line again for the Carmine Hose, hoping against hope for another title...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: after the facts | 10/3/1986 | See Source »

...picket fence punctuated by fat red roses. We see random shots of Lumberton, the film's seemingly idyllic smalltown locale. Big-hearted firemen wave in slow-motion, houses and trees and citizens stand their ground. Then a middle-aged man has a seizure watering his lawn. The hose spurts above him with sexual abandon, and a mongrel dog lunges on the misdirected spray. Lynch follows this with a close-up of insects teeming in the rich grass. He sticks your nose down into the nest, and the theater fills with brittle bug noises...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: It's a Disturbing Life | 9/26/1986 | See Source »

Lines for refreshments were long. Thirty people waited to drink water from a hose behind the boathouse. Others--including several dogs--went swimming in the lake...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Just Another Day in the Sun | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

From where a woman in her fifties--who preferred to remain anonymous--sat, you couldn't see the lake. You could only see the back of the boathouse and the streams of people waiting to drink from a hose...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Just Another Day in the Sun | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...film unfolds with various disjointed shots of Benares and its human and animal inhabitants. A farmer picks orange flowers; strong, muscular bodies chop wood; two men assemble a bamboo ladder; white-robed workers hose down flat stone; holy men chant cryptic chants; a small, squeaky boat glides over the river. Then come the bodies, ushering in with them the audience's epiphany. Bodies covered with orange flowers, bodies over flames, bodies on top of bamboo ladders--suddenly, the disjointed pictorial congeals into a single entity. Death. Everyone in this Hindu society lives and labors for their holy deceased...

Author: By Deborah E. Copaken, | Title: Gardner's Forest | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

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