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...25th anniversary at his job, Mr. Zero (Brendan McNab) arrives at work expecting a promotion as a reward for all his years of dutiful service. Instead, his boss (who struggles to even remember Mr. Zero’s name) casually announces that he is fired, as a new adding machine will replace him. Furious, Mr. Zero kills his boss and is subsequently imprisoned and sentenced to death—a punishment that sends him to the Elysian Fields, an eerie afterlife where he reflects on his past existence...
...actors are actually most effective when they simply confine their performances to physical acting, such as when Broome savagely stamps around in sturdy, thick-strap Mary Jane shoes, as if ready to trample McNab at any moment. Always snappy and punctuated in her gestures, be it forcefully slapping down McNab’s newspaper or thrusting guests through the door as they arrive for a party, Broome moves with a brusque urgency that captures both the precision and frustration of her disappointing life...
Harvard was forced to play this weekend without two of its top players, Melissa McNab and Cisca Mok. The team will now look to the spring to get some revenge. The Crimson will get another shot at William and Mary when the two meet at Harvard on April 5. Yale will also be in town in April...
...CHARACTERS make Texas out to be a Hollywood production. It is the most exotic place with the most exotic people in North America, but making every Texan as a most honest, least scrupulous, or add-your-own-superlative adjective variation on John Wayne just isn't real. Otto McNab, the Mexican-killingest, honestest, independentest, good-community-manest Texas Ranger is almost so absurd that the book becomes humor rather than drama. There were some pretty tough Rangers, but none so epic in every quality...
...Translation: it breaks down too often. Company President Lawrence Hyde argues, "Everything cited by critics has been corrected and proved O.K. in current tests." But meanwhile the HMMWV acquired a bad name, which makes its nickname all the more important. Says Army Spokes man Colonel Craig McNab: "Chances are that troopers will come up with their own name anyway. And the troops always prove to be highly imaginative...