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...throughout the film, director/screenwriter Hampton Fancher has our gentle killer relate a favorite anecdote in which a spider climbs into his ear only to climb back out. "Nobody home" is the punch line he delivers, flashing his trademark smile. These scenes are so important because the filmmakers want to portray Vann as a "zero," a nothing--a "nobody home" type of guy. He is merely a reflection of whatever others want him to be: a son to an unhappy old couple; a buddy to a high school football star; Mr. Right to an unmarried postal worker. Yet Fancher also wants...
...Clinton Administration will never admit that this is its policy. But it is. Which is one of the reasons the debate about intervention is so muddied and confused. Everyone is throwing around moralistic cliches, including an Administration that wants to portray itself as pure as snow...
...field of eccentric candidates seems ripe for parody [POLITICAL SCENE, Sept. 6]. However, to hear TIME tell it, the city is so mired in its problems that there is no hope for change. Certainly, urban flight, racial divides and economic struggles are crucial issues that Baltimore faces, but to portray the city as a wasteland populated only by drug lords and underqualified would-be mayors does a disservice to all those who are committed to working for a better future. Growing up in Baltimore and witnessing the complex issues there inspired me to work for social change in troubled urban...
...group, 'Oh, you're going to say great things about Harvard? You can use it.' And then refuse another group that doesn't portray Harvard as well," Green says...
...Star Called Henry The first of a trilogy of novels by Roddy Doyle setting out to portray 20th century Irish life...