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...work in mental hygiene when the fall term stants. The work will be done under the medical department, of which Dr. Alexander M. Burgess is head. Dr. Arthur H. Ruggles, head of the Butler hospital, will organize the work, and associated with him will be Dr. Charles A. MacDonald of the Harvard Medical School and Dr. Paul Ewerhardt...
...almost unrelenting barrage of comedy, romance and excitement and earns comparisons to Robert Altman’s best work. John (Cillian Murphy) is inarticulate, unsure of what he wants and desperately insecure. As a result, he decides to “test” his girlfriend Deirdre (Kelly Macdonald) by breaking up with her, an action that has consequences for everyone in their small Dublin suburb. Simultaneous to the romantic drama, another local suburbanite, Lehiff (Colin Farrell) has his thoughts on a big robbery that, as always, will enable him to settle down for life. Although the language is often...
This story of a 1985 Andes mountain-climbing disaster comes courtesy of director Kevin MacDonald, whose film One Day in September won the Oscar for Best Documentary a few years ago. But in the vein of his last work, Touching the Void, is not a clear-cut documentary; the events it examines are real, but MacDonald uses re-enactments of the story’s events to supplement a narrated account from the disaster’s survivors. The nut of their crisis: halfway through a climb, one of the two team members falls and breaks several leg bones...
...find that surprising. I read the book as a rather liberal damnation of authority. Prime Minister John A. Macdonald is portrayed as a drunk whose primary concern is preventing Riel and his people from establishing representation in Parliament...
This story of a 1985 Andes mountain-climbing disaster comes courtesy of director Kevin MacDonald, whose film One Day in September won the Oscar for Best Documentary a few years ago. But in the vein of his last work, Touching the Void is not a clear-cut documentary; the events it examines are real, but MacDonald uses re-enactments of the story’s events to supplement a narrated account from the disaster’s survivors. The nut of their crisis: halfway through a climb, one of the two team members falls and breaks several leg bones...