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This cocky Yankee fan, accustomed to victory as a rite of fall, began to understand the uniqueness--also depth--of Boston's special pain. Not like Cubs pain (never to get there at all), or Phillies pain (lousy teams, but they did take it all)--but the deepest possible anguish of running a long and hard course, again and again, to the very end, and then self-destructing one inch from the finish line...
...something of a rite of fall. The foliage takes a turn through a magnificent spectrum of red and orange and green. The apples ripen. Students go to Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts to look at the leaves...
Kyle MacLachlan is outstanding as Jeffrey. With his paperboy face and barely noticeable earring, he meets and hurdles each awful rite of passage with marked confidence. Laura Dern makes for terrific chemistry with MacLachlan; she slow dances and sips Heineken like a runner-up Homecoming Queen and proclaims with detached conviction, "It's a strange world." Isabella Rossellini is all lips and eyes as the tortured chanteuse. "Hit me, hit me," that S&M cliche, has resonance and poignancy in the context of her performance. Dennis Hopper is to-the-core nasty as the vile drug-killer; he was better...
...Manhattan's Greenwich Village in search of an easy key to their past. Most of the crowd filing into the Top of the Village Gate is early middle-aged, with a sprinkling of children. The occasion could be parents' night at a progressive school. Instead it is a rite of commercial nostalgia: Beehive, two hours of songs from girl singers and girl groups of the '60s. Six wailing women, six guys in the house band, the stage a huge steel blue jukebox. Plus 32 wigs, 25 costume changes and 15 cans of Aero Lak hair spray each week...
...dwelling on the dark side of the Kennedy myth, his eldest children are striving to live up to the responsibilities their father taught them. The first members of the third generation of Kennedys to seek political office, the brother and sister both face congressional primaries early this month, a rite of passage that, for the Kennedys, is the equivalent of confirmation or graduation in other families. Joe, 33, is running in Massachusetts' historic Eighth District, a liberal Democratic stronghold in Boston and Cambridge, and an area J.F.K. represented before moving on to the Senate in 1952, the year...