Word: isolationism
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Hanks has often played a decent man isolated--in his mind (Forrest Gump), his disease (Philadelphia), his bereavement (Sleepless in Seattle) or outer space (Apollo 13). As Chuck, he finds his best, most resourceful self in isolation. So does William Broyles Jr.'s script; the 80 minutes it spends on...
Tom Hanks is back on a killer beach, and this time he's alone. The soldiers hitting the Normandy sands in "Saving Private Ryan" faced grim death, but it might come in the arms of a buddy. Chuck Noland, the FedEx manager stranded on a Pacific island after a plane...
Now she works at the Senior Center--a program whose goal is to help ease the isolation that many first-generation Portuguese immigrants feel once their children have grown up and no longer need their constant attention.
Hovering behind the generals and lawyers and foot soldiers on both sides, of course, were the principals, Gore and Bush. Their styles couldn't be more different--Gore his own chief strategist, always on the offensive; Bush relying on staff and playing defense--but they are seared in precisely the...
Similarly, Podmore even manages to breathe some new life into the old complaint of postmodern isolation. She takes a teddy bear that has only eyes and ears, sews room for Level Best human arms and legs and sticks this figure on a branch of a birch tree set in a...