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Capuano's odyssey from mayor to representative began in the first few months of 1998, when rumors of Kennedy's retirement began to permeate through Bay State Democratic circles. Party leaders informally floated the names of possible replacement candidates, and the popular Somerville mayor was among them along with two local politicians and a radio talk-show host...
Last night, Pulitzer Prize winning-writer Ron Suskind spoke with Cedric Jennings, the subject of his new book, A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey From the Inner City to the Ivy League...
...some traceless way, through some unfindable hole in time, childhood vanishes. That's the haunting, unstated theme of this extraordinarily good first novel. The title is a child's way of saying "odyssey," and the voyage at the novel's core is that of 13-year-old Philip Shumway. One ordinary summer afternoon, Ethan, Philip's much loved elder brother, walks away from their house and is never seen again. The Shumways--Philip, three sisters and their parents--track him separately into obsession. Philip's childhood is burned away, cauterized, by the loss, and the half-formed man whose personality...
...father long lost to drink and mysterious shame has died. Attention must be paid by his angry, damaged son Victor (Adam Beach). A little odyssey to recover the body--and to achieve some sort of posthumous reconciliation--is arranged. Another youth, Thomas (Evan Adams), whose life the dead man saved and whose memories of him are much fonder, intrudes himself on the journey, which eventually brings the young mourners to a new understanding of their shared past and of one another...
...Citizen Kane 2. Casablanca (1943) 3. Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb (1964) 4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 5. Network (1976) 6. Schindler's List (1993) 7. Brazil (1985) 8. Amadeus (1984) 9. The Elephant Man (1981) 10. Fantasia...