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...western's long hiatus has also given the format new room to roam. Patricia Limerick, a professor at the University of Colorado and a leading revisionist historian, sees the end of the cold war as liberating. "We don't have to create an image and an ideology of ourselves as heroic expanders of the frontier and innocents who fight evil," she says. "All of that cold war fervor that drove the old westerns has lifted, so you can do more complex and interesting westerns." At a time when gritty urban realism and literal-minded docudramas hold sway, westerns...
McEwan fleshes out this skeletal scenario with a hearty dose of psychobabble. Freudian guilt complexes, Buddhist cycles of reincarnation and wells of spiritual self-empowerment roam the script untamed. But eclectic psychodramatic conceits are no substitute for substance...
Bill Clinton felt the weight of the moment. He went to bed at 10 the night before, but woke at 3 a.m. to roam the White House corridors as so many of his predecessors had done -- Johnson, Nixon, Bush. They had paced away the dark hours contemplating war, the enduring curse of Middle East policymaking. Clinton read the Book of Joshua, hearing in his mind the trumpet blasts that rent the walls of Jericho, wanting to be sure to make the point in the ceremony that this time the trumpets "herald not the destruction of that city...
...were once presented by the Great Stone Face -- was given a complete overhaul. In his new setup Letterman will have a more cavernous auditorium, a bigger audience (about 400 seats, nearly double the capacity of his old NBC studio) and a whole new neighborhood for his snoopy cameras to roam around in. "You can leave the stage, go down three or four steps, open the door, and you're right on 53rd Street," says Letterman. "I can scream every night at Miss Saigon. I can literally holler at her. I can make enough noise on our sidewalk to disrupt their...
...vaccinate wild animals, just as pets are given protection. He helped develop an experimental oral vaccine for raccoons as a research veterinarian at Philadelphia's Thomas Jefferson University and the Wistar Institute, a biomedical research center. The vaccine is contained in bait and dropped into areas where raccoons roam. In tests done in New Jersey, the animals ate the bait, and many of them developed antibodies to the virus...