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...teenage life and Ryan’s rambling, anecdotal dog walks.Perhaps the only redeeming factor of “Women” is the performance of veteran acting great Olympia Dukakis (“Steel Magnolias,” “Moonstruck,” “Mr. Holland’s Opus”). Dukakis’ comically edgy turn as Brody’s cranky grandmother keeps you in stitches even as the rest of the movie moves at a snail’s pace. From answering the door in the nude to constantly lecturing Brody...
...seeking information about Barclay’s whereabouts, and that an e-mail from his mother had been sent out to all the dorms. Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) is also on the lookout. “The MIT Police Department shared with us the missing person flyer for Mr. Barclay,” HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano wrote in an e-mailed statement. “Our officers and detectives have been asked to keep an eye out for him.” MIT spokesman Patti Richards said the school is doing its best to search for Barclay...
...BEEN 25 YEARS younger, he would have been the quintessential 1960s hippie. Instead, the sweet-souled, world-weary, darkly funny Kurt Vonnegut became the avuncular, rumpled hero of the counterculture generation. In books like Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, the satirist, who struggled with depression, repeatedly explored the harmful effects of industry on human beings' collective morality. After laboring in obscurity for decades, he shot to global fame in 1969 with Slaughterhouse-Five, a fictionalized account of his experiences as a POW and "corpse miner" in Dresden after the Allies bombed the city...
...some classmates in his playwriting class. They had grown alarmed at what they heard when it was his turn to present his plays for peer review. The works were violent, obsessive and often focused on sexual abuse. One especially profane play titled Mr. Brownstone told of a student being repeatedly sodomized by a teacher. Another was about a 13-year-old who accuses his stepfather of abusing him. The protagonist's mother at one point brandishes a chainsaw. The play ends with the stepfather crushing the boy to death...
...local radio that he'd met a bloke in town who was worried about fairness in the workplace. "He's not concerned about himself," he said, "but he's concerned about his grandkids-to use his term-grandkids being guinea pigs in the new system of industrial relations Mr. Howard has set up." Only the previous week, Rudd had told listeners on nationally syndicated 2UE radio: "I don't think people listening to your program want their kids to become human guinea pigs in Mr. Howard's radical and extreme industrial relations experiment." Rudd was cutting through to voters...