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...presidential campaign had broken up in the primaries the previous spring. Then, as he reports, "one afternoon in April 1989, I walked out of a baseball stadium and saw my son, Albert, then six years old, get hit by a car, fly thirty feet through the air and scrape along the pavement another twenty feet until he came to rest in a gutter." The child, at first near death, eventually recovered. It was in his son's hospital room in Baltimore that Gore began writing Earth in the Balance...
Bale plays Jack, a happy-go-lucky newsboy who hawks papers for the New York World, part of the sensationalistic "yellow press" of the 1890's. He and his fellow orphans and street kids scrape by on the pennies they make selling papers. Jack teams up with a pair of down-on-their-luck brothers, Davy (David Moscow) and the baby-faced Les (Luke Edwards) and teaches them the tricks of the trade. ("Headlines don't sell papers, newsies sell papers...
...rather a heavy load for small clay objects to carry, but one of the virtues of Price's work is that it never seems pompous and only rarely trivial. Some of the time, it mocks itself. Certain Prices look like exquisitely glazed versions of stuff you would want to scrape off your boot. And what about Wart Cup, 1968, for a title? One can't claim too much for his cups, which is a relief in a culture that tends to claim far too much for its paintings, but the whole show in Minneapolis is infused with an educated sense...
...eventually the integrity of the structures. The antidote used so far has been to scrub the facades. Since 1986 the Archaeological Survey of India has spent the six-month dry season sprucing up Angkor Wat. A team of 15 Indian specialists supervises more than 300 unskilled Cambodian workers, who scrape the fragile sandstone carvings with brushes and chemicals...
When he was nine, his father took him to see Star Wars. Like many thousands of youngsters, he went back as often as he could scrape up the money for another ticket. But while other kids fantasized about becoming Luke Skywalker or Princess Leia, Singleton's hero was director George Lucas. He soon began drawing scenes on sheets of paper and flipping the pages to create crudely animated "movies." During his senior year in high school, inspired by an English teacher with a passion for good writing, he decided on an alternate route to filmmaking: screenwriting. He enrolled...