Word: strangerness
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...turned it over and wrote my phone number on the back. "I've got to go now--but I'll be in touch," she rasped, leaving the brown-stone. In an effort to gain a favor for my consultant friends, I had just given a cloak-and-dagger stranger a blank check...
Magic realism dictates, moreover, that they be archetypes: Grandpa (Anthony Quinn) is a lusty old windbag; Dad (Giancarlo Giannini) is an uneasy martinet; Mom (Angelica Aragon) is full of soft romantic sentiment. They also, of course, have a fierce, primitive, mystical relationship with the land that nurtures them. The stranger must embrace the acreage before he can embrace their daughter...
...nine men and three women must have remembered that Smith is also one of Union's own. "She had the home-court advantage," says I.S. Leevy Johnson, a criminal-defense lawyer from Columbia, South Carolina. "When a jury votes for the death penalty, it's usually for a stranger, a monster, a threat to society. It was almost impossible for the prosecutor to show she was any of that." After the sentencing, jurors reportedly asked Judge William Howard if Smith would receive psychiatric help in prison...
...fate, which is ideally suicide. The Bridges of Madison County gives us the "good" woman's answer, which is to renounce romantic love for the sake of husband and kids. But the more disquieting message of that story is that four days and three nights with a sexy stranger can outweigh anything else that ever happens in a "good" woman's life...
...turns out that Rimm is no stranger to controversy. In 1981, as a 16-year-old junior at Atlantic City High School, he conducted a survey that purported to show that 64% of his school's students had illicitly gambled at the city's casinos. Widely publicized (and strongly criticized by the casinos as inaccurate), the survey inspired the New Jersey legislature to raise the gambling age in casinos from 18 to 21. According to the Press of Atlantic City, his classmates in 1982 voted Rimm most likely to be elected President of the U.S. The next year, perhaps presciently...