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...meets a woman who has just gotten married and dances with her in a bar. She begs him to come home with her, saying "I want to love you baby." The kiss and despite the suspended, inconclusive ending to this story, "It was there. It was...The beautiful stranger. The torn moon mended. Our fingers touching away the tears. It was there." But the tear in the moon is huge and gaping for the lost, aching and alcoholic souls of Jesus' Son; any mending short of the fleeting or miraculous seems incredible...
...down. The novel addresses the depths of hatred and spite to which the world often descends. On a personal scale, the narrator himself is both protected by a benign intuition, which saves him from a scorpion's bite, and seized by loathing so intense that he quietly breaks a stranger's nose. In just such an unassuming manner, McEwan questions the forces that govern our lives. Can we really explain the twisted landscape of human history with the neat, scientific principles we have devised? Dare we do otherwise...
Epps is no stranger to the current situation. Every few years minority students agitate for change and call for increased diversity in the faculty and sensitivity on campus. The College creates a committee, usually headed by a high-profile minority professor or administrator, and the committee issues some recommendations that seem to address the problems. By the time this cycle plays out, most of the students involved have graduated...
...plot is familiar: a gentle stranger (Carlos Gallardo, who also co- produced) in a tough town; a mysterious woman with a nasty patron; and in 82 minutes, 15 perforated corpses. But that's just the outline. Rodriguez, who's been making films since he was 12, and whose short comedy Bedhead won prizes at 14 festivals, realizes that even splattered blood can get tired if there's no wit and bustle in the execution. His mentors -- Alfred Hitchcock, Sergio Leone, Sam Raimi -- knew how to do it, and Rodriguez is a fast learner. Every shot (of an astounding...
...onetime state department adviser to former President Jimmy Carter, Nye is no stranger to classified information. But this, he says, is different...