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...surprise of the film, though, is the unexpected range of singer-turned-actor Tim McGraw, who plays Charlie Billingsley, Don’s father. Well cast as the former high school star and state champion he wishes his son were, McGraw perfectly embodies the strain that the town places on its youth, never relenting in applying that pressure. Though some of the scenes in which he embarrasses his son with his overbearing demeanor—Charlie at one point appears out of thin air as his son fondles his girlfriend on the couch, before taping his hands to a football...
...that has, since the early 1950s, been dominated by the security establishment, and in which the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood remains, by most estimates, the most popular opposition group. The bombers have certainly turned up the heat on Egypt at a moment when the system's structural weakness are under strain. The effects of the carnage along the Red Sea may eventually be felt by many more than just the families of the victims...
Well listen up, Bright Eyes: the excitement is going to wear off. As classes proceed you will learn that the happiness of these first weeks in college will not sustain through the semester. The stress, the strain, the lack of sex—it all creates a strange cycle of behavior that starts every morning and ends late into the night. The end result is exhaustion and an inability to get out of bed. Perhaps the inscription above the Gate of Hell in Dante’s Inferno sums it up best: “Abandon all hope...
...every trip, I am struck by the businesses that have closed in my hometown and by the new houses that loom, raw, over freshly-seeded lawns. I can no longer name the children who bicycle in wobbly circles in the street. I can no longer identify the dogs that strain, barking, against their leads when I walk my dog past. Like most of the kids from my hometown, I swore that once I got out, I’d never go back. I guess I hadn’t known it would happen so quickly...
...walk without coats. The ice cream shops close around midnight, with throngs of Harvard students milling about the thresholds until even later. The crowds of first-years are especially self-evident. Pass under the garish glow of the streetlamps outside ABP, cross Dunster Street, and suddenly one strain of music fades while another emerges. English is drowned out by a plethora of other languages...