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...were pumping near-boiling water into the pipe to set the lining, when visible plumes of styrene-contaminated wator vapor started to shoot out of a manhole near Seattle Street. "We did not anticipate that we would have this issue when we released the water down the sewer line," Philip Coleman, the Turner construction manager for Harvard's science complex, said during Monday's meeting. "We didn't see this coming." Coleman also told the crowd of over 30 Allston residents that his company has yet to determine exactly what caused the leak. Styrene is commonly used in the manufacture...
There is - or so we like to think - a natural order to mortality. As Philip Roth observes in The Dying Animal, of which Elegy is a very faithful adaptation, we expect our grandparents to be the first to go, then our parents, then (unimaginably) ourselves - a very long time in the future...
This is a matter both film and book leave ambiguous. Because, in some sense - and I know this is going to sound strange - it is really no more than a plot point, something that plausibly carries us to the matter that, in recent years, has most obsessively concerned Philip Roth. Even his most casual readers know him as our only great erotic novelist, a man who spent his early career both hilariously and heartbreakingly exploring the contortions of the spirit that our sexuality imposes on us. Truly, to borrow the title of an earlier Roth novel, he has been...
Elegy Directed by Isabel Coixet; rated R; out now Professor has affair with lovely grad student: we've heard that one before. So had Philip Roth, whose novel The Dying Animal is acutely attuned to the dissonance of May-December love. This fine film has a touching performance by Penélope Cruz and a great one by Ben Kingsley. Cue the Oscar buzz...
...hostages and hammered out a tentative cease-fire. Not a bad week for a man who, if the State Department handed out speeding tickets to freebooting statesmen, would have spent much of his 34-year-career in traffic court. His style places him in the ranks of troubleshooters like Philip Habib and Richard Armitage, whose authority derives not from their titles but from their willingness to operate in the highly volatile, here's-the-deal-dammit world of eyeball-to-eyeball diplomacy. The formula is simple: earn the trust of the principals, talk straight and cut the best deal...