Word: ices
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very beginning of The Ice Storm, Paul Hood (Tobey Maguire), a 16-year-old who attends boarding school in New York and reads Dostoevsky and the Fantastic Four, announces that families are like voids from which you can leave but must always return. At that moment, he's on his way back into the void, heading to his Connecticut home to spend Thanksgiving, 1973, with his family...
...ice storm, which literally freezes the world around the Hoods and the Carvers, serves as a kind of natural catalyst which brings all of their disappointments and repressed feelings to the surface, or at least forces them to break through their stiff behavioral code and emote. The Ice Storm, based on Rick Moody's 1994 novel, is a complex and, almost inevitably, flawed work of art, but one can't help being affected by nearly everything that transpires...
...complex issues, one wishes it were willing to offer some kind of moral resolution for its characters. By the end, a child has died and one of the main characters is finally, in this world of restrained emotions, reduced to tears. For a while it seems as if the ice storm--which the camera dwells upon in the second half of the film--will transform the lives of the Hood family. Instead, it leaves them at the very bottom of the familial void to which they must belong...
...sells Cliff's Notes which have no disclaimers about plagiarizing," he said. "I wonder why Bob Smith [from B.U.'s Office of the General Counsel] has not sued Cliff's Notes. Possibly because there he will be up against heavy money...and he knows he's treading on thin ice...
...immediate issue between management and employees is recognition of the "Steve's Ice Cream Employees' Movement" as the representative of a majority of Steve's workers, Hayes said...