Word: solidities
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With something of the same method and intent, Mamet writes about Hollywood. His plays, films and essays contain many scalding observations on mainstream filmmaking. Yet from 1981's The Postman Always Rings Twice through The Verdict, The Untouchables, Hoffa and The Edge, Mamet has written solid, burly movies for top producers and stars while pursuing a parallel career with the modestly budgeted films he writes and directs himself. "I'm really fortunate," he says. "I have some good friends and supporters in Hollywood." And he knows that part of his job as a filmmaker is "shaking money out of those...
...part of what then happened, and most of her memories are too terrible for her to face directly. So the reader, like the parents who have found their way to Outer Maroo, is disoriented for much of the novel, menaced by half-understood threats, never sure what ground is solid. The horror here is peeked at slantwise, through a girl's splayed fingers. What appears to be true is that Oyster bound dozens of young believers into a cult whose elements included an underground life of opal mining, ecstatic prayer and patriarchal sex. And that in the end Oyster gratified...
...route to Joshua Tree National Park, we visited a different type of generational enclave: Palm Springs, a remarkably well-landscaped desert entirely populated by tan elderly individuals ready to play golf at a moment's notice. Our "economy" rental car and solid-colored clothing was painfully out of place in this burg, so humming U2 (no tape-deck in "economy" rentals) we hurried on our way. Joshua Tree, not surprisingly, was filled with Joshua trees, but it offered little in the way of generations and lots in the way of El Nino-induced drizzle. So with the prototypical National Park...
...going to miss us by a good 600,000 miles. This letdown came the day after another bunch of astronomers (who had apparently paid less attention in high school trigonometry class) announced a miss of approximately 30,000 lousy miles, which left open the possibility of a good, solid creaming should a tailwind or something come along at the right moment. How depressing...
DIED. RAY NITSCHKE, 61, rock-solid middle linebacker for the Green Bay Packers who anchored the defense of the Lombardi-era championship teams; of a heart attack; in Venice...