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Outside, leaning against the servants' quarters, a larger-than-life portrait removed from the house serves as target practice for bored soldiers. Other photographs of the leader stare blankly, their eyes gouged out with combat knives or bayonets...
...Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe. Oswald is variously buffeted by communists who hate Kennedy, CIA renegades bent on a better Bay of Pigs invasion and Mafia overlords whose motives are as shadowy as their methods. As history, the explanations are no more satisfying than any others. As literature, the portrait of Oswald's strange world -- especially his bizarre mother -- is richer, spookier and eerily funnier than anything else on the subject...
...young novelist's portrait of affluent suburbia in the 1970s...
...kids and their guns, is one such exception. Hull spent five weeks last summer hanging out with a gun-toting 16- year-old boy and his friends in Omaha, Nebraska, cruising in their cars, listening to their fears and dreams, gaining their confidence. The result was a chilling portrait of well-mannered -- and well-armed -- kids who seemed to have lost the ability to resolve their conflicts without shooting at one another...
...around David Williams, an American history professor under siege by his colleagues and the board of trustees for his refusal to sign a loyalty oath. Played by Jason Cooper, David evinces all the moist-eyed idealism of a true patriot; in both his home and classroom, he has large portraits of his personal hero, Abraham Lincoln, and teaches to his students a mixture of red-white-and-blue rhetoric and history. His wife Elisabeth (Amy Brown) and daughter Joanne (Genevieve Roach) complete the wholesome family portrait. But a closer inspection of the Williams reveals the growing stress fractures between...