Word: sleepers
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...years after they were first ( published. "I am an invisible man," Ralph Ellison declared in the opening sentence of his only novel. "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." If they do register his presence, it is as "a figure in a nightmare which the sleeper tries with all his strength to destroy...
There is one aspect of cloning, though, that writers have largely overlooked: its potential for laughs. The most obvious exception to that rule is Woody Allen in Sleeper. The high point of the film comes when Allen's character kidnaps the severed nose of a Big Brother-like dictator before it can be cloned to oppress the world once more, and holds it hostage at gunpoint. It's hard, though intriguing, to imagine what ethicists would do with that...
Here comes Free Willy, this month's feel-good sleeper. Preview audiences have gone wild for Willy, the story of two 12-year-olds separated from their folks. Jesse (Jason James Richter) is a troubled boy who, while cleaning up the graffiti scrawled on the walls of a seaquarium theme park in the Pacific Northwest, bonds mystically with a 7,000-lb., 22-ft.-long killer whale named Willy. Aided by his foster parents and two sympathetic adults at the park, the sweet boy makes it his mission to free the sweet beast...
...sufferer is snoozing, throat muscles that keep breathing passages open relax so much that the airway closes. As much as a minute may pass before the sleeper gasps for air and rouses briefly. In a study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers found that 4% of women and 9% of men stopped breathing at least 15 times an hour during a night's sleep. Because they are seldom fully awake, most apnea sufferers are unaware that their sleep is disrupted. The only clue may come from a bed partner whose own rest is disturbed by the breathing...
Coolidge Corner Theatre. 390 Harvard St., Brookline. 734-2500. Through Thursday, Oct. 22. Feed, a Presidential comedy at 4:35 and 7:55 p.m. Bill Plympton's The Tune at 7:40 p.m. Susan Sarandon in Light Sleeper at 4 and 9:25 p.m. Jonathan Demme's Cousin Bobby at 6:15 p.m. The Panama Deception at 6:05 p.m. Deep Blues...