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...sort of belated hippie odyssey and most of his adventures are fairly typical of that no-longer novel experience. He finds honest work and an agreeable boss in the midwestern wheat fields; he paddles prettily and adventurously down the Colorado River; he joins an older, good-natured couple in a commune; he eventually comes across an older man, a retired soldier (Hal Holbrook in a lovely performance), who becomes the fully understanding surrogate father he has always sought. Eventually he attains the wilderness of his dreams, settles into an abandoned bus, and lives out the winter in increasingly desperate circumstances...
...harrowing and, at 15 hours, an endurance contest. But it makes vivid a tale worth retelling. Burns, who briefly swore off war movies after The Civil War, says he's just decided to make a film about Vietnam, although not until its vets are several years older. For now, The War makes the anguish and loss as real as if they were happening today. Which, of course, they...
...that peacetime boom between the falls of the Berlin Wall and the Twin Towers. Then, at least, we had the luxury of wondering whether we didn't have bigger things to worry about. Today we know we do. And we watch--and cover--O.J. anyway, a dozen years older, not necessarily wiser...
Kilpatrick insists he can win reelection in 2009. In the meantime, he must win back the confidence of several key constituencies - starting with older black voters like Charles Paschell, 80. Standing outside one of the few supermarkets on one of the city's main thoroughfares, Woodward Avenue, Paschell said he was initially attracted to the mayor's youthful energy. Now, however, his view has changed. "He's a mayor - he's got no business acting like he's been [doing]," Paschell says. "I'd like to see a young person make us look good...
...whole existence of wine-making is a contradiction to most of the preconceived notions people have Lebanon," said Ramzi Ghosn, who along with his older brother Sami founded Massaya, one of Lebanon's newer wine-makers, near the Bekaa town of Chtaura. The Ghosn brothers are part of the generation that left Lebanon during the country's brutal 15-year civil war, and who began returning in the 1990s to rebuild the country with skills they learned abroad. For Ramzi, who studied marketing in the United States, wine is a perfect vehicle for changing the perception that Lebanon is haven...