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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Things Invisible to See, narrating from both Ben's and Clare's perspectives, and establishing deliberately the eternal relevance of concepts like death, good, evil, love and baseball. In Ben's first visit to Clare, Willard captures all the agony of the first crush and even love at first sight...
...wallet while she was trying to open her locker, he'd leaned down and picked it up... "You dropped your wallet," he said. She was too flustered to say thank you. She managed a quick nod of her head and he disappeared down the hall. For weeks afterward, the sight of him made her tremble. She learned his schedule and looked forward to the few minutes between classes when their paths crossed. She watched when their paths crossed. She watched him in the cafeteria and remembered what he ate and what he left untouched. She memorized his clothes and fell...
...avoid disgrace by claiming she had been raped. When her description of her imaginary assailant resulted in Dotson's arrest, she went through with the lie; a jury deliberated only 96 minutes before convicting him. But Crowell, now a wife and mother in New Hampshire, could not forget the sight of the innocent man weeping as he was taken away, and she finally told her minister about the hoax...
...sympathetic candor to Pretty Baby and Atlantic City, his earlier portraits of American dreamers lost in transit, Arlen has a director almost too alive to nuance. The film has a very long fuse; for its first hour it meanders down familiar folkloric byways. It will stop to admire the sight of a Texas fishing boat cutting through the muddy water and purple sky, or linger over the electric heat in the slow dance of Madigan and Harris before their ideals fatally collide. But once it gets going, Alamo Bay delivers its argument with rigor and passion...
...household of creative artists. The Pasternaks haunted the city's concerts, which were more like family gatherings than formal affairs. At the beginning of the concerts the chairs were arranged in the usual rows. "But since the same people attended nearly every concert . . . and knew each other well by sight, the arrangement was regularly disturbed by the audience's imperative need to share its pleasures," Pasternak recalls. The listeners "shifted, straggled, and clustered," taking their chairs with them. "By the end of the evening the seating had turned into a map charting the music's magnetic field of attraction...