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...leaves it in only where (as with the Skeeter-Rabbit talks) it matters. Redux makes concrete a cyclical vision of human interaction. Rabbit goes through a free fall which Janice endured, on her own scale, in Run; and as Janice then caused the death of a child, Rabbit's sodden neglect causes Jill's violent end in a blazing house. Updike's characters change and grow with each other, spinning globes in solar systems of an inexplicable universe. Is there no justice to these systems? No, not in any Old Testament sense--the questions here are too variable...
...Alone. Entire villages were wiped out, and the sodden ground was spotted with bloated corpses and the debris of houses, offices and shops. The port of Paradeep, India's eighth largest, was heavily damaged. Rivers overflowed their banks. Trees were uprooted and countless people were swept away in the tidal surge...
Married. James Mason, 62, British film actor best known for his portrayals of such tormented characters as the wounded Irish revolutionist in Odd Man Out (1947), Judy Garland's drink-sodden husband in A Star Is Born (1954) and Humbert Humbert in Lolita (1962); and Clarissa Kaye, 39, Australian actress; both for the second time; in Corseaux-sur-Vevey, Switzerland...
...elitism. Whether or not the seizure of a building was the best method of bringing Harvard's community responsibilities to its attention is also open to debate. But the building has been taken: these women have gotten together and taken positive action while the rest were busy deploring the sodden state of our lives...
...have to be a fan clubber to love Elliott Gould, but it helps when, as in Move, his talent is swaddled in mediocrity. Laboring under Stuart Rosenberg's incomprehensible direction, Gould strives to leaven a sodden lump of a movie. His role is that contemporary stereotype, the creative Manhattanite who thinks himself into a granny knot. However fascinating Gould's mumblings and stumblings may be, they are scarcely enough to sustain 90 minutes of pointless celluloid...