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Triage resonates with the kind of frustrated compassion that underlies film noir. Movies seem to be the deepest part of the long shadow it throws: the scary, night-crawling beauty of Taxi Driver crossed with the corrosive, explosive political parables of Oliver Stone. It is -- in the best sense -- a deadly combination...
...Crimson came into the match today with the shadow of a fall season riddled with injuries and internal problems hanging over it. Players said, however, that they have been trying to put all that behind them and this win helps...
...features, one each on movies, videos and CDs. But although his movie segment, Sixty Second Preview, is heard on 225 stations nationwide, chances are you know Craig better from the bold-faced blurbs that trumpet his opinions in countless movie ads. Craig, for example, called Passion Fish "a triumph," Shadow of the Wolf "spectacular," Love Field "fabulous" and Amos & Andrew "a hilarious & provocative comedy...
...world is dark, lonely, and savage. God is "a cold shadow," as we are informed by the surly protagonist, who moans he "could have forgiven Him for everything but not existing." Painfully maudlin commentary unfortunately comprises the bulk of this ill-fated production of Ronald Ribman's Dream of the Red Spider. If only it had been written with a sense of humor or perspective, maybe this play would have been tolerable. But the overblown dialogue, sparse plot, and half-hearted acting make this performance dull, dull, dull...
...phony emotion that we picked up because our culture celebrates it? Psychologist Lawrence Casler, author of Is Marriage Necessary?, forcefully thinks so, at least at first: "I don't believe love is part of human nature, not for a minute. There are social pressures at work." Then falls a shadow over this certainty. "Even if it is a part of human nature, like crime or violence, it's not necessarily desirable...