Word: snow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...monitor the way my body feels and make sure I am holding a steady pace. When my soles start to burn, my body starts to dehydrate and a seering pain rips through my legs, I have to keep telling myself that I did not run miles and miles through snow, rain and wind to wimp...
Philadelphia at Chicago, ppd. snow...
...public seem virtually obsessed with the war and its aftermath. Indeed, the entire Vietnam experience has been so painstakingly scrutinized lately that any further attempt to probe its horrors bears the onus of showing us something innovative. Unfortunately, the well-intentioned and well-executed Leverett House production of Strange Snow fails to offer insights fresh enough to shock us out of our complacency--and growing boredom--with the subject...
These may sound like the perfect ingredients of a Hollywood story, and in fact, Strange Snow was recently made into a film called Jacknife, starring Robert DeNiro. I did not see this film, so I cannot make any comparative assessments. But it seems as if Metcalfe's script might work better on the screen, which could lend a larger-than-life aura to this simplistic and somewhat thin story. Despite the generally good acting in the Leverett House production, descriptions of the war and the pain of remembering it might seem more convincing coming from Robert DeNiro rather than...
Perhaps Fox should have chosen a more challenging play and let Strange Snow stay in Hollywood, where it belongs...