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Pickard is a realist. A Quaker missionary's son, he didn't try to fight Airborne about the contamination; he started watering his herd from the city's supply. His son works in Airborne's maintenance shop, and Pickard himself makes extra money plowing snow for the company. He can use the cash, since the 15 parcels he farms, comprising 58 acres he owns and an additional 1,400 he rents or leases, net him just $9,000 a year. "Basically, you have to be numb," he says. "You have to accept what is good and shut off what...
...that it's difficult to maintain emotional identification with the main characters while we're having our minds and emotions numbed. For instance, the scenes of Max and Horst at work in the concentration camp--endless vistas of two ragged, small figures stumbling across the whiteness of stone or snow in their meaningless work--evoke echoes of the theatre of the absurd, of postmodern anguish a la Waiting for Godot. But it seems unclear why this effect is courted in the first place. The movie's ultimate aim appears to be a statement about the sublime aptitudes and beauty...
...knows why the school bus swerved off the road and into the lake. All that is known by the inhabitants of the profoundly isolated small town in British Columbia, already buried in snow and melancholy, is that 14 of their children are dead and many more are injured. After such tragedy, what redemption...
...Francis Avenue resident reported that an unknown person wrote a derogatory word in the snow on the rear window of her car. Her car was parked in her driveway at the time...
...would also like to express our amazement and gratitude for the job done by the Harvard Operations Department in preparing Ohiri Field for the game. They spent many hours plowing snow off the field by truck, then carefully removed the last layers by hand. The field maintenance staff allowed us to play on schedule, the loyal fans made the home-field advantage real, and our team responded with a resounding victory...