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...water. They love movies that reveal the familiar through brand-new eyes. If detective Harrison Ford could cozy up to the Amish in Witness, why couldn't detective Melanie Griffith go undercover among Brooklyn's Hasidic Jews and become one of the mishpocha? The reason why not is A STRANGER AMONG US. This pill of a thriller, written by Robert Avrech, manages to demean everyone involved, regardless of creed or previous credits. The usually workmanlike Sidney Lumet directs Griffith to be shrill and most of the Hasidim to be cute and noble -- E.T.s with yarmulkes. Only Eric Thal...
...result of Wills' sojourns is this week's probing study of Clinton's roots. Wills, of course, is no stranger to the task of getting inside the mind of American politicians, having written six books on American Presidents as well as many in-depth articles on incumbents and would-bes. Since he profiled Ronald Reagan in 1987, Wills has written 15 articles for TIME about the forces and people that shape America's political soul. So prolific is this one-time Jesuit seminarian that he occasionally loses count of the number of his books. "Fourteen, or maybe...
...hard time with the work, didn't meet as many people as I wanted, etc. Charmaine and I remained distant friends and I began to get to know Jenny pretty well. But orientation week ended, and that easy familiarity with which a first-year could approach a stranger in the Union and strike up a conversation hardened into intense romances and newly-founded social cliques...
...once I realized that I was at the wrong college a mere two possible paths became apparent. I could have, on the one hand, decided to get in touch with my inner vagrancy, bailed out, gone somewhere else and felt like a stranger for a semester or two longer than Most college students do. Otherwise, I could have sucked up my misery and wallowed in it for four years...
Another interesting idea whose significance is unclear is the race and gender reversals among the cast. Actress Cori Lynn Peterson is cast as boy mechanic Billy Biker, Stranger's sidekick. Japanese Mr. Yamarama is played by Bryan Van Gorder, a white actor. "Frank" and "Hank" (Sarah Sidman and Vonnie Roemer) are two valley-girl types wearing black sunglasses and neon bolero tops...