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...instance, a reservoir created by a dam has been drying out, revealing a once-sunken village. Swain shows us the fish that have formed a churning mass, forced ever closer by the waning pool. The mystery of Ross - whether he's turned feral by choice or by circumstance or ill luck - remains unanswered. The reasons don't matter. For Swain the mystery of the world is what makes it interesting. You have to give in to her ambiguities and learn to enjoy the atmosphere of quiet uncertainty...
...professor talks an ornate game. But he could use a good personnel consultant. For his ill-chosen crew consists of Gawain MacSam (Marlon Wayans), a symphonist of obscenities; a silent, deadly, chain-smoking Vietnamese convenience-store operator (Tzi Ma); a football-playing moron (Ryan Hurst); and, best of all, Garth Pancake (J.K. Simmons), a militant liberal, serenely overconfident of his skill with powder and fuses and, alas, afflicted by irritable-bowel syndrome, which kicks in at inopportune moments. Oh, almost forgot to mention this--most of them have hair-trigger tempers, which do not aid them in the swift completion...
...fiasco, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ and same-sex marriages. If the media toned down the rhetoric and images, perhaps Americans would not be impervious to the genuine violence that pervades our culture and would focus on the election's serious issues. RALPH J. PALMER Schaumburg, Ill...
...next year, the success continued, as Maine took home the Hockey East crown. And in the fall of 2000, Reilly got his first shot at being the number-one guy behind the bench at a major program when he was named interim head coach while Walsh was ill...
...fundamental questions of education. While Rosovsky’s committees centered around intellectual inquiries—“Historical Study,” “Literature and Arts” and the other core areas we all know and love—this review is ill-defined and is suited to revising calendars, not ways of learning...