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...sells houses in Haddam, a leafy New Jersey exurb that bears more than a passing resemblance to Princeton, where he and his wife were once happy. She has remarried and moved to Connecticut with the two surviving children. And the elder one, Paul, 15, has entered a rough patch of adolescence, so much so that he faces a court hearing on July 5 for stealing condoms from a local mall...
...past century of this nation's history is as much a part of Shinnecock Hills as the diabolical rough. The club began to take shape in 1891 thanks to the money of William K. Vanderbilt and his wealthy friends, and the sweat equity of the Shinnecock Indians who once inhabited this land on the eastern end of Long Island. The original clubhouse-the original American golf clubhouse-still stands sentinel over the course, a tribute to the genius of architect Stanford White. J.P. Morgan regularly challenged the links, as did Andrew Mellon...
...manuscript, which Pinehurst, Tex. resident Mark G. Holmes bought in a frame for 25 cents at a garage sale last year and retrieved from his closet two months ago, appears to be in Longfellow's handwriting. Scholars believe it to be a rough draft of one of Longfellow's most famous poems...
...Lucy, the walking dead with the fatal love bite, and Van Helsing, the fearless vampire killer. But well before Jennie embarks on her long night's journey into daze, Clark and screenwriter Harmony Korine have worked at numbing the viewer with scenes of anomic decay. It's not the rough huff of the sex play with girls who look to be on the green side of puberty, though these trysts pack their own sick wallop. It's the throwaway brutality (the kids beating up a black man in the park), the notion that the world is there to be spat...
...working methods-a seeming indifference to auteurial imperatives that somehow gets him, most of the time, exactly what he wants: spontaneity and realism, qualities virtually synonymous in his mind. In practical terms, that means he's always hoping to get the shot he wants on the first take-rough magic being of more interest to him than the more smoothly polished kind...