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Carnivale leaves enough loose threads to knit an XXL sweater, and from them it might weave a story that really does defy expectations. But for a show that prides itself on strangeness, it is the most conventional HBO drama in years. If you took away the nudity and profanity from The Wire and Six Feet Under, they still couldn't air on network TV: their morality is too vague, their characters are too complex. Clean up Carnivale, and you'd have something not unlike ABC's spooky Miracles from last season. Carnivale's myth and Manichaeism may lure viewers inside...
...never been in a group before like the offensive line,” Smith said. “I don’t believe you can get a closer, tight-knit group of guys than this group...
Certainly, terrorists might be tantalized by the massive social and economic disruption the blackout caused. The episode brought chaos to 50 million people in eight states and Canada and showed just how vulnerable the tightly knit network of generators and transmission lines is. In the wake of a similar wholesale crash of the system that sent the Northeast into darkness 38 years ago, the powers that be said they had enacted safeguards to ensure that such an epic loss wouldn't happen again. The experts assumed that if something went wrong, the culprit would be an act of nature...
...Woman as sharer and carer, woman as earth mother, woman as unsung guardian of all the small rituals that knit together a family and a community, woman as beneath, above or beyond such manly concerns as law, reason, abstract ideals—these images are as old as time,” wrote Katha Pollitt, a noted feminist...
Instead of determining who would make the team by observing the skiers on the slopes, as had been done in previous seasons, alpine coach Lisa Smyth made cuts early in the year. Doing so ensured a close-knit group of athletes, many of whom possessed previous racing experience...