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...more repressive America before tragedy claims them. Now, in a somewhat more enlightened era, we are made to feel pity and even a touch of terror for them. Shrewdly positioned as a romance rather than a message movie, Brokeback comes at us quietly. We really like these guys--one rough-hewn and silent, the other eager and somewhat unformed--and the picture's unforced, almost casual realization keeps us sympathetically involved with them even when their fates lead them into uncharted territory...
...lets out a small moan. "I'm being treated like a criminal for being a victim," he says. "What kind of system is this?" Chalmers, a former municipal worker with a full beard and sad eyes who admits having been a drug addict, has just been plucked off rough-and-tumble Whitelock Street in the Reservoir Hill neighborhood of Baltimore, Md. His crime? Being too scared to testify in court against a paroled murderer who robbed him at gunpoint last April. Chalmers began missing court dates three months before he was picked up. So the state of Maryland plans...
...first crack at directing movies, Lathan is a well-known veteran in the African American cinema market. She has come a long way since she played the gauche tomboy in “Love and Basketball.” As a basketball star, she was young, vigorous, rough-and-ready. As Kenya the corporate guru, she is mature, graceful, and sophisticated. And in both parts she allows her character’s hidden sensitivity to subtly, but clearly, shine through...
...power play in a whistle-heavy encounter that saw two game misconduct penalties—to Johnston and the Bobcats’ Nicolette Leone—assessed within seconds of each other in the final period. “The game became very rough,” Raimondi said. “We were on the wrong end of some bad calls, and it hindered our ability to get into a rhythm.”Harvard’s second goal came at 17:21 of the middle period. Brine, the team’s leading scorer with 13 goals...
...worth remembering that of all the moments when she stood at history's hinge, one of the most important was when she was most human, most vulnerable, six months pregnant and wondering about the odds of her husband surviving a four month sentence of hard labor in a rough Georgia jail...