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Arquette, in great shape these days, radiates the strain of a desperate coquette. Anderson, with all the charisma of the guys you knew back in shop class, is an ideal stud-schlemiel. But this is Lithgow's spotlight. His shambling gait and open shirt give him the look of Disney's Brer Bear. But Mills is a slyer oaf, muttering obscenities and worn wisdom, capable of evil . and love; Lithgow's dilapidated face tells you both are curses. He knows that noir is a chase with death at the end, and he makes it a hell of a ride...
...voice heard here, and in related stories about boxing and war, is so strong and clear that it is hard to imagine the author finding another as effective. A couple of successful experiments don't entirely settle the matter. One sketches a stud who, though he senses dimly that he may be missing something, resolutely avoids emotional entanglements with women. The other takes the familiar testosterone ride, but from the point of view of a woman who has as a lover a deep-sea diver and then, when he dies, a fighter pilot. A few more open windows are needed...
...celibate single mom; he's a shiftless stud, currently shacked up with a dimwitted aerobics instructor. She's the owner of an Oakland, California, bookshop specializing in black studies; he's the proprietor of, and TV pitchman for, a car dealership. She wears authentic African garments to work and rides a bicycle everywhere; he favors inauthentic cowboy duds and hogs the road in a four-by-four. Oh, yes, she's black, and he's white...
Experts and minority students say the scores do not accurately reflect students' aptitude because the minority groups which score lower often come from less privileged economic backgrounds. Questions on the test are often biased in favor of the more privileged student, according to stud- ies by Fairtest, a Cambridge-based "national center for fair and open testing...
...pass through now and then. But they're mostly sketchy figures in suits and uniforms, the sorely afflicted or, like the ferryman, no-accounts who come to stud and go off to do something else. In 1910 the Birches move from Pasquotank to Raleigh, where matriarch Charlie Kate raises her daughter and granddaughter, practices medicine and becomes a Wake County legend: "Remember when she got Tessa Jerrod's arm out of the wringer? . . . Buttercup Spivey's dropped kidneys rose. Malcolm Taylor stopped wanting to scratch his missing leg. Everybody saw the miracles all around...