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Mostly, we wouldn't have it any other way. Which does not, perhaps, bode particularly well for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly or The Savages, both of which take mortality seriously. In the former a successful man in his prime is struck down by a massive stroke. It leaves him able only to blink a single eye. And the capacity to conduct interior monologues with himself. In the latter, a cranky old crock named Lenny (Philip Bosco) surrenders to senile dementia, leaving his self-absorbed and obscurely damaged children, Wendy and Jon (Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman...
...that Julian Schnabel's film about the catastrophe that struck Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) , editor of a chic Paris magazine and a glamorous figure in France's celebrity world, is a exercise in minimalism rather understates the case. Visually speaking it consists of Jean-Do (as he prefers to be called) lying in bed, observing his radically limited world and recalling his life. What it has for a plot is Jean-Do devising a way to write a book. A therapist recites the alphabet to him, and whenever she mentions the right letter to him, he blinks...
...spring 2006, the father of a junior was struck by a University shuttle in front of Dunster House after he fell while loading his daughter’s belongings into their...
...automobile struck a male undergraduate Wednesday in front of the Fogg Art Museum. The student suffered minor injuries...
...struck again, close to the border with Kenya. (Though the nearest human habitation is the Somalian village of Waldena, GPS receivers show the strike site is just inside Kenya.) The wreckage of a convoy was plainly visible in June, with six 10-ton trucks flipped on their sides or backs and with shell casings and live rounds littering an area as big as three football fields...