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...winners in four of those six slots. Such multiple nominees as No Country for Old Men, Michael Clayton, Atonement, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, The Savages, Away from Her and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly had received their first big North American push on Lake Ontario. The preponderance of TIFF veterans among Academy favorites is nothing new. In 2006 the top contenders for Best Picture were Brokeback Mountain, from TIFF 2005, and the eventual winner, Crash, which had played without much fanfare the year before. That film had been tagged for direct-to-video release until its eventual distributors...
...unlike Sittenfeld herself, who was jolted from Cincinnati to the rarefied precincts of the Groton School in Massachusetts. There is a similar class consciousness in American Wife, especially in the luscious passages in which Alice describes her first encounters with the Blackwell family at its summer estate, Halcyon, on Lake Michigan. The Blackwells are overwhelming, especially the materfamilias, known as Maj (short for "Her Majesty"). They are classic inbred Wasps, fetishizers of the threadbare - there is only one bathroom, with iffy plumbing, at Halcyon for the truckload of Blackwell siblings. They're bawdy for effect (but prudish in reality), overly...
...swimsuits. Nor did he wear a streamlined cap to cover his hair. In fact, he swam with a mustache. Spitz won his medals the old-fashioned way. It has taken more than 30 years of technological innovation for anyone to come close to his success. Mark D. Reese, SALT LAKE CITY...
...Louisiana State University, the hurricane-force winds blew down trees, fences, power lines and street signs. Some streets had minor flooding. Driving was still treacherous on Monday afternoon with huge tree trunks blocking roadways and traffic lights not functioning. One of the major Baton Rouge hospitals, Our Lady of Lake, had to operate on generator power. "Please stay indoors and please don't be on the road if you don't need to be," Jindal warned residents during an early afternoon news briefing. By evening, power had not yet been restored to much of the city. On Tuesday, Jindal said...
...Good news! The weather was beautiful in the Twin Cities, with plenty of sunshine and gentle breezes caressing this lake-speckled summertime paradise...