Word: normale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's nothing particularly new in saying that "normal" middle class life throttles vital emotions, but Tremblay overlays a complex weave of thematic concerns to avoid staleness. It isn't enough that one sister sleeps with Serge, all the others want to as well. They grab for him physically and spiritually hoping that if only he will agree to live with them they will be saved from their miserable lives. The two old aunts, who must sleep in the same bed even though they hate each other, add their pleas to the chorus. Jealousy, lust, hatred, infidelity, frustration--all swirl...
Carlos Dobal as Gabriel has perhaps the hardest part of all: a sixty-odd-year-old deaf man. Apparently Dobal and director Jeffrey Harper decided that Dobal should speak with the voice of a normal man rather than one who was old and deaf. Perhaps the fact that Gabrial has so many speeches--which could possibly be read as internal monologues--led them to this. At any rate, Dobal comes across as exactly what he is--a 20-year-old actor with silver paint in his hair. He doesn't convey enough of the decrepitude or pathos inherent in Gabriel...
When time resumed its normal course, the red light flashed, the sizable contingent of UNH fans went nuts, and the Wildcats mobbed their captain and each other. A few minutes later, after Tourney MVP Greg Moffat frustrated a few desperate, last-minute Big Green attempts to send the game into overtime, the icemen from Durham, N.H., had grabbed a hard-fought contest, 3-2. It was their first ECAC Division One championship in ten tries at post-season play...
...Dartmouth College nearly everything seems to be in place. Boys and girls together. Beer flowing like champagne in the frat houses. The temperature at 15° below and more than a foot of snow on the ground. The population of Hanover, N.H., swollen to nearly twice normal size for the long weekend, as 4,000 dates stream into town from as far off as Southern Methodist University...
...Chemical Co., a major producer, denied there was any proof that in normal agricultural use the herbicides hurt humans and promised court action to stop the ban. But the EPA said it had no choice. Explained Deputy Administrator Barbara Blum: "The warning signals from the miscarriage study, the preponderance of strong animal test data and the low short-term economic impact compel emergency action. Taken together these facts sound an alarm...