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...Anderson went back to the printer; people lined up outside his office and waited. By last week he had handed out 4,000 forms; 1,800 had already been completed and returned. His deputy, James Groth, sat in a room surrounded by them, furiously processing, with no end in sight. "My family has almost forgotten what I look like," Groth said. A bemused hostage to his fellow citizens' need to pack clandestine heat, Groth has been taken somewhat by surprise...
When it comes to heavyweight crew, there's Brown and then there's all the rest. The Brown heavyweight crew captured everything in sight last season. The Bears won at Eastern Sprints, Nationals and the Henley Regatta in England. Adding insult to injury, Brown blew out Harvard--by more than seven seconds--in a dual meet for the second year...
...next thing he knows, he has landed, Dorothy-like, in an entirely different world. Somehow Daniel's boat has washed up onto a vast plain of parched earth, with not a drop of water in sight. It's Patrick Swayze as Pecos Bill, and not Glinda the Good Witch, who arrives in a cyclone, just in time to rescue Daniel from two comically imbecilic vagrants poised to kill Daniel for his gold fillings...
...opponents occupies the first hour of the film, occasioning some fetchingly naive comments like Benny's description of sex: "It would be like someone was putting his finger up your nose." Jack, too has demons to overcome; a medical student by his father's command, he faints at the sight of blood (yes, really...
...nominee for Best Foreign Film. Anne and Aleksander are lovers--that is why her marriage is in trouble--while the refugee hiding in the monastery is the daughter of Aleksander's former lover. Even when the connections between characters are not that intimate, they sometimes know one another by sight, because commerce and communications keep shrinking the world. War zones nowadays have area codes, and the vision of a terrorist with a Kalashnikov in one hand and a cellular phone in the other, talking to some faraway co-conspirator (or maybe his mother), is not farfetched. Manchevski makes this point...