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Lehane added that he lamented a subplot in both versions of Mystic River involving the character Sean and his estranged wife because it was too peripheral to the core of the movie...
...once saved from stoning, condemned to prostitution. Years later Bey visits his now-diseased wife in a brothel: "He ? put his hands on her head, as if in benediction," and in the simple gesture lies forgiveness, shame, reconciliation and, still, love. It's fleetingly moving, but a fragmented subplot in a book of subplots. Perhaps most unwelcome is the book's heavy-handed preachiness. Rustem Bey darkly announces: "If a war can be holy, then God cannot." What's unmistakable is the lesson for today. Muslims and Christians? Holy war? The message is loud and clear - play nice. But with...
...point margin in the TIME poll (55%-36%), and those who are neither Protestant nor Catholic gave Kerry an edge of more than 50 percentage points (73%-21%). Catholics divided nearly right down the middle: 45% for Kerry; 43% for Bush. Within those numbers, however, there was a subplot, one that echoes the overall polarization of the electorate. Among Catholics who consider themselves very religious, Bush enjoys a 23-point majority; among those who say they are not very religious, Kerry leads by more than 46 percentage points, and among those who say they are somewhat religious--a group nearly...
...Faith," "Stark Raving Mad," I'll stop for your sake - they'd settle for having "ordinary" in the same sentence. And often, the pilot is even, well, better than ordinary. If it was not like watching a great episode of "Friends," it was like watching a pretty good "Friends" subplot stretched out to a half-hour...
Deep Pockets’ twists and romance ring a little too close to home; readers might find the famed professor-saucy undergrad subplot a tad familiar. But Barnes swears “there was no particular Harvard hanky-panky in my mind.” Rather, she explains, “College is a time when a student can leave home, go to a new city, make new friends…omit entire sections of a life. Invent an entire history...