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...mean to say, God knows, that boys will be boys. But it is part of childhood to enter into parallel universes of "play" that may be sinister and that may become the more captivating the more it simulates reality. Usually the play, a form of testing and learning, is not fatal. But boys back to the dawn of human experience have had it in their bones to play violent games. Even the priggish Henry Adams, as a boy in the middle of the 19th century, joined the Latin School's army in a bloody rock-in-the-snowball battle...
...eerie quality to the film. An example of his skill is his shot of the first encounter between Ronnie and Giles. The camera focuses on their handshake as Ronnie removes his hand and Giles keep his extended. Where Kwietniowski fails is by not adding other subtexts or parallel storylines; the result is that Love and Death on Long Island is rather one-dimensional.Giles' obsession for Ronnie becomes tiresome andunfulfilling. For each new way that Gilesdiscovers to further his foray into the world ofBostockiana, we begin to lose interest in hisemotions...
...eerier deja-vu in light of the black literary tradition to which Walker owes so much. Over fifty years ago, Richard Wright argued against Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, claiming the book perpetuated stereotypes of blacks as "happy darkies" and minstrels. When asked about this parallel Walker answered, "The black arts community is still really young. We keep bringing up the same themes to trash each other...
...known as the Conamara Chaos, the spacecraft photographed an area in which the moon's thin skin of ice appears to have buckled as a result of turbulent water moving just beneath the frozen crust. The crumpling gave the ice a washboard topography made up of a series of parallel cliffs, each the size of Mount Rushmore. Elsewhere the spacecraft spotted bright crustal fractures crisscrossing older, darker ones, suggesting that the ice is being cracked and recracked by similar subsurface sloshing. Still elsewhere the ship photographed a crater whose floor seems to have swelled up from beneath--its central peak...
Allen's playing is more difficult to grasp than Rubalcaba's--her playing is more harmonically complex and less predictable. She is also a less flashy player, although she possesses considerable technical agility. Her tendency to improvise relatively freely of bar downbeats, as well as her use of parallel octave lines and other mannerisms, suggest a strong Bill Evans influence. Her music flows a little more freely than Rubalcaba's, at least in these performances, and she introduces elements of chaos and abstract texture that the other trio never attempts...