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...Weather Man He has a funny name (David Spritz) and the studio tried, disastrously, to sell this Nicholas Cage movie as a comedy. It wasn't. It was about a Chicago weather reader dealing with an almost classic midlife crisis-a divorce, a disaffected child, an accomplished, disapproving (and dying) father (Michael Caine) the tempting possibility of taking his act from local to national TV. Steve Conrad's excellent script is directed as a sort of sad frenzy by Gore Verbinski and the result is a very affecting movie, offering a convincing portrait of middle class desperation that ends...
...rocked a sleepless infant or grasped a bedridden father's hand--as well as a tingly intuition of the special nature of those particular players. When the young Joseph muses that "when You settled into my arms it felt as if I were holding heaven," the Christian reader is meant to realize that he actually...
...heading “Haddock Slips From Top”), you describe how Voith and Gadgil have gained an edge in student opinion due to “two key endorsements from The Crimson and Native Americans at Harvard College.”The fact is that the average reader learned of The Crimson’s endorsement only after reading the much more prominently displayed and ostensibly impartial front-page information, including the article in question. Whatever The Crimson’s reputation as kingmaker, it is untenable to attribute retroactive influence to an endorsement many have...
...While the early stories tend to be reminiscences told in a straightforward style that offers the reader a fly-on-the-wall perspective, Tyler's work really blossoms, so to speak, in the final third of the book. Created mostly after her child-rearing duties wound down, the colors explode and the work becomes more poetic, but still real and funny. One standout piece, called "My American Labels" (which also appears in Roadstrips, a fine new anthology of American cartoonists published by Chronicle Books) reads as a series of long panels designed to be affixed over cans of beans. Each...
Many students expressed the view that the goal of freedom of speech is tolerance, but not sensitivity. They said it is the job of the individual reader to judge what he or she reads...