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...zero-chemistry courtship between Fraser and Silverstone prompts nausea. The film would have been better with less emphasis on their inevitable romance. The director attempts to uplift us with a scene depicting Adam's first sight of the ocean, but cheesy orchestral music coupled with shots of Silverstone's blank reaction basically kill the moment...
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PANGAEA SPLITTING INTO CONTINENTS and the ocean flowing between them has not been the only great divide in history. An even greater rift emerged--one that changed the course of history forever--when JFK Street rammed itself through Harvard Square, creating a divide in the land greater than any resulting from a wide expanse of sea. This split yielded two institutions which, though separated by no more than 30 yards, are truly worlds apart: Nini's Corner and Out of Town News...
Pangaea splitting into continents and the ocean flowing between them has not been the only great divide in history. An even greater rift emerged--one that changed the course of history forever--when JFK Street rammed itself through Harvard Square, creating a divide in the land greater than any resulting from a wide expanse of sea. This split yielded two institutions which, though separated by no more than 30 yards, are truly worlds apart: Nini's Corner and Out of Town News...
...peoples organized, across the alienating-yet-binding space of the Atlantic, a dynamic of entanglement and change that both invigorated and, by stages, freed them. Phillips writes, "Each conflict--and all three of them combined revolution and civil war--rescripted society, economics, and government on both sides of the ocean." Thus, for example, the American Civil War resolved--the hard way--the problem of slavery. Put the three wars together, as Phillips does, and you see that they "constitute the central staircase of modern English-speaking history, not least the division into two great powers with pointedly different characteristics...