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...Blind boars of wind crashed through the nervy woods," reports Jason Taylor, frightened schoolboy, as he heads toward the darker reaches of the trees, and of his imagination, in a grisly English town in 1982. "Listening's reading," he notes elsewhere, "if you close your eyes." The sounds and tastes, the trembling feelings of his world course through the wide-awake boy like channeled spirits. Yet what makes the pungent spray of syllables heart-rending is the fact that Jason is a stammerer and has to avoid certain letters even when reading aloud in class...
Black Swan Green tells the story of 13-year-old Jason in 13 chapters, one for every month of 1982 (plus one for January 1983), and describes an archetypal striver, rendered lonely and vulnerable by his sensitivity and terrified of bullies, girls and his inability to say words beginning with s and n. His family is coming apart, he somehow senses, as is the country around him (it's the year of the Falklands War and Maggie Thatcher's unexpected revolution). One part of him leans toward knowingness, but the rest is mired in a child's supercharged universe...
...Morgan Brown sat for the third straight game because of a strained hamstring. Sophomore Taylor Meehan started at shortstop in Brown’s place and committed two errors….Harvard sophomore Max Warren did not allow an earned run in two innings of relief after following junior Jason Brown, who struggled with his control….The start of the game was delayed as Rondo, the home plate umpire, bizarrely forced B.C. third base coach Mikio Aoki to remove his jacket, a rule demanding team uniformity that is rarely enforced.—Staff writer Alex McPhillips...
...Jason B. Munster ’07 said that the cube encouraged conversation at his dinner table, spurring a discussion about Martin Luther King Jr., 8th grade sports coaches, and other outstanding leaders in the lives of the students...
Don’t be surprised if you feel like you’ve heard some of the patter and pop-culture references of “Slevin” before. Director Paul McGuigan and writer Jason Smilovic owe the larger part of their souls to Guy Ritchie (for flashback sequences with crazy lens shading), John Woo (for slow-motion fight scenes), and Quentin Tarantino (for the entire script and plot...