Word: strays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play is a sort of bifurcated detective story. We observe a variety of events, most of them comical, unfolding in 1809, and we see also how the haphazard by-products of those events--stray letters, drawings, jottings--are interpreted, shrewdly but often incorrectly, nearly two centuries later. The past proves inhospitable; it resists the probings of the present...
...structure Manchevski takes liberties with common sense. (At one point photographs are taken by a man who we later discover is already dead.) This dedication to structure undermines other aspects of the film as well. We are never allowed to become attached to one character, lest his story line stray too far from the rain. Just as we get to enjoy the company of this fascinating young monk we are pushed back to the beginning of the film. The viewer will not be immune to the irony of having to spend almost three hours with Forrest Gump and only thirty...
...abducted him into manhood; an army stint at Cambridge encouraged him to seek, and win, a scholarship to Oxford, where he taught after graduation. But from Fringe on, anonymity would be lost to Bennett, and sensation would press in on this lifelong bachelor in odd ways. All sorts of stray beasts would show up on his doorstep...
...rear doors, deploying escape chutes and herding passengers out the emergency exits. Paratroopers met them on the tarmac and instructed them to crawl toward the terminal, where the wounded were given emergency treatment, mostly for scrapes and bruises. The rear cabin was filled with smoke, riddled with stray gunfire and rocked by grenade blasts. "The bullets were flying all around me," recounted one passenger, an Algerian merchant marine captain. "We expected death, we were waiting for the explosion," said another Algerian passenger, Ali Kalak. "We never thought there would be such a successful intervention...
Cambridge resident hopes to find the owner of a stray honey-colored hamster found last Thursday night near the Radciffe Quad...