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There are pain and honor in this performance, and they constantly rise up to redeem a film that is less probing, less thoughtful than its director's claims and aspirations for it. The problems with Michael Collins begin with its conventional three-act movie structure--ABC, QED. This is fine for fiction, but history, as everyone who has lived some of it knows, works more waywardly and coincidentally than that. Especially when it's in the throes of revolution...
Turow obviously cares about Sonny and Seth and the lost possibilities they might somehow redeem, so much so that he cannot give his main characters the ironic distance their actions seem to require. This triumph of the heart over the head is a weakness concealing a strength. For The Laws of Our Fathers gathers considerable emotional power toward the end. The funeral of Seth's father, a Holocaust survivor and once the bane of his rebellious son's existence, calls together a number of the novel's main characters plus a cross-section of Kindle County, old and young, black...
...welfare reform, the single action most responsible for anchoring him in the political center. The President had vetoed two earlier welfare bills but agreed to the third on July 31. Although flawed in Clinton's view, the bill ended welfare as a federal entitlement, thus allowing the President to redeem a key 1992 campaign pledge: his promise to "end welfare as we know...
...smacked their clubs, their eyes as narrow as the slits in an armored car. Most of the convention delegates and dignitaries quartered in the fortress Hilton were at the moment three miles away at the convention hall, preparing to bestow upon poor Hubert Humphrey the nomination he thought would redeem the years of humiliation and corrupting self-abasement he had endured as Johnson's Vice President...
...just imagine what the air of the Olympics is going to be when that 100 begins," says Mitchell, who would love to redeem himself after finishing third to Christie and Fredericks in Barcelona. "It's going to be just crazy. I don't even know if I can handle it, and I'm one of the athletes competing." All that anticipation over something that takes just 10 seconds. All that importance attached to just six grams of gold...