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...landscape of Australia is a predominant theme in Wallace-Crabbe's poetry, both as an object of beauty in itself and as a mirror of human emotion and thought. As Wallace-Crabbe explained, his poetry attempts to "render the nature of consciousness in tangible images." In his poem "Mind," for example, the inner conflict of the mind is reflected in the speaker's surrounding in the Australian bush...
People who use other people don't always know that they're using them. So says Canadian writer-director Atom Egoyan in his handsome, quirky comedy THE ADJUSTER. Noah Render (Elias Koteas) is one such user, an insurance claims adjuster whose sensitivity to his clients' suffering extends to having sex with nearly all of them, from frowsy couples to purring studs to a burnt-out stunner (the lustrous Jennifer Dale). It makes life tough for Noah's wife (Arsinee Khanjian), a film censor. Both have jobs appraising erotic desires and pathetic dreams; both have a ruthless talent for "sorting things...
Rudenstine stressed certain unusual phrases in the traditional speech that would render the law students graduates. He urged the students to "aid in the shaping and application of those Wise restraints that make us free...
...demagoguery and deception as required for political success, and he served several terms in Congress during the Jackson Administration. "I was cunning as a little red fox," Crockett wrote in his autobiography, "and wouldn't risk my tail in a 'committal trap.' " Too much noncommitment from Perot, though, could render him implausible as a President...
...physician father to study medicine, Hawking chose instead to concentrate on math and theoretical physics, first at Oxford and then at Cambridge. But at age 21 he developed the first symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) -- also known as Lou Gehrig's disease -- a disorder that would inevitably render him paralyzed and incapable of performing most kinds of work. As the authors note, theoretical physics was "one of the very few jobs for which his mind was the only real tool he needed...