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...killed my mother when I was four years old," Lily says at the beginning of the film. "That's all I know about myself." For the past 10 years, she has been raised by - been the prisoner of - her father T. Ray (Paul Bettany), who runs a peach farm. Lily is dreamy, wistful, self-hating and suicidal; T. Ray is a sullen beast, punishing the girl by making her kneel on grits (coarse-ground corn meal, to those of you - those of me - who are ignorant of Southern cuisine). Lily has her own roiling karma. No question...
...critic in me says, some of the plot twists emerge from the House of Astonishing Coincidences. And every character is designed either to point Lily in the right direction (the women) or to dramatize the rural bigotry she's trying to escape (the white men). I wish T. Ray, well played by Bettany, had been given some spark of ambiguity, some inner life beyond his meanness; and that June - her arms folded in disapproval, like a stern nun concealing a ruler in her sleeves - didn't have to endure the standard redemption process of being enlightened, converted, broken. But this...
...cost about 400 people their jobs, and effects are rippling out into the community, says Tadayasu Yamamoto, chairman of the Hitachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry. "Shop owners of the nearby shopping arcades are in trouble and so are the consumers," Yamamoto says. "We cannot allow the city's ray of light to be extinguished...
...better. Harvard is approaching the heart of its Ancient Eight schedule and is currently positioned one point behind the league leader. “It’s starting to come together, so we’re very excited about that,” Harvard coach Ray Leone said. “[The players] are starting to learn each other: [their] strengths and tendencies. It’s taken a long time to make that happen.” Harvard has now scored three or more goals in three straight games, a major feat considering the squad did not score...
...forcing a good save from Harvard junior keeper Lauren Mann.Fortune then favored the Crimson, as Murphy could only stand and watch as a cross from the right side of the goal box hit off a defender and fell into her net for Harvard’s first score.Harvard coach Ray Leone’s urging of his team to play faster was audible from the stands.“We were struggling to move the ball quickly,” Leone said after the match. “So, obviously when you don’t move [the ball] quickly...