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...best individual performances belonged to junior Darren Dinneen and sophomore Chris Clever, who both traveled to Buffalo for the NCAA Championships last week. Last year, according to co-captain Joe Ciollo, no Harvard men went to nationals...
Whittaker Chambers, Tony's ogre, kept up a correspondence in the '50s with the young William F. Buckley Jr. Chambers was emphatic in his contempt for Joe McCarthy: "For the Right to tie itself in any way to Senator McCarthy is suicide...[H]e can't lead anybody because he can't think. He is a rabble-rouser and a slugger...
Buckley's judgment is more complex in The Redhunter, an ingeniously symmetrical drama of the origins and psychology of communism and anticommunism. He has invented a young alter ego, Harry Bontecou, who goes to work for Joe McCarthy (an only lightly novelized version of the real Senator) and turns out to have been fathered by a secret onetime English communist. Buckley offers not so much an ideological evaluation of McCarthy as a portrait of a live character and force of nature--country-boy chicken farmer, charmer, weasel, patriot, bully, loose cannon and for all that, the spokesman for a valid...
...example, the Juneau, Alaska, of Limbo. It seems to have a limitless supply of his kind of people--aging slackers muddling inconclusively along. Chief among them are Joe Gastineau (Sayles regular David Strathairn) and Donna De Angelo (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio). He's a handyman, an omnicompetent fixer-upper, who has abandoned the life he loves, as a fishing-boat captain, because he feels responsible for the death of two men on a long-ago voyage. She's a wandering bar singer--a very good one--encumbered by a sulky, judgmental adolescent daughter (Vanessa Martinez) but blessed by good nature. Like...
Having known Mastrantonio, Sayles wrote Donna for her, infusing the character with what he calls her "resilience" and then creating a stern, surprising test for it. Civilization in Alaska is, after all, a thin membrane stretched across a vast wilderness, and the writer-director devises a way for Donna, Joe and her daughter to fall into the darkness. On a seemingly innocent cruise with his half brother, they are beset by murderous demons out of the brother's shady past and become castaways on a deserted island--their resources (and survivalist skills) scant, the knowledge that the criminals must seek...