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Simultaneously, but independently, they invent the notion of stealing the turtles and setting them free in the ocean. It requires only the intercession of a third party, the creatures' keeper, to bring them together. Thereafter, Turtle Diary casts its spell mainly through its refusals. The heist proceeds without hitch or Hitchcockian suspense. There is not a single sentimental or anthropomorphic word, nor does anyone utter a sound about endangered species or ecological morality. William and Neaera do not fall in love as a result of their shared adventure. Each remobilizes sexually in surprising ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shell Games Turtle Diary | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

Sanchez novel, "The Hurricane Dance," is a love story between a coyote, or border smuggler, and a well-established shop-keeper. Both deal with the problem of reconciling the need to make money with the desire to help people in a run-down beach town on the Mexican border...

Author: By Andre T. Dryansky, | Title: Aspiring Novelists Re-Joyce | 12/6/1985 | See Source »

Matt Ginsburg started in goal for the second straight game since freshman keeper Stephen Hall collided with a Dartmouth attacker. Ginsburg had one save on the afternoon...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Booters Rally at Rhode Island | 10/31/1985 | See Source »

Despite what the score might indicate, Crimson goalie Denise Katsias turned in a good performance. The freshman keeper blocked 11 Minutewomen shots, and the three goals she let by all came in difficult circumstances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UMass Routs Outmatched Stickwomen, 3-1 | 10/17/1985 | See Source »

...WORST SCENES are certainly those in which the younger characters tell their problems to O'Toole. Their difficulties thump like so many case studies from everyone's favorite bearded Viennese couch-keeper, with the lifelessness ordinarily confined to pre-pubescent diaries. O'Toole's answers whisper forth with the naive, 60's-style moral rhythm of Jonathan Livingston Seagull without the ocean breeze...

Author: By T.m. Doyle, | Title: 'Creator' Botches Formula | 9/27/1985 | See Source »

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