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...maze is a success, and Larry finds enough eccentrically rich prospective maze builders to sustain his own maze design business. He meets with success in his personal life as well. His new wife, Beth, is a beautiful, if self-centered, academic interested in women's studies and religion. Unfortunately, Larry's prolonged midlife malaise and Beth's scramble to the top of the ivory tower conspire to end this marriage...
...achieve such high levels of creative intensity that their untimely deaths seem to be a foregone conclusion. Along with artists like Jimi Hendrix, Charlie Parker and Robert Johnson, John Coltrane contributed so much to music and did so with such passion that it seemed his body was unable to sustain such fiery inspiration for long...
Such tales of human resilience sustain Brandt as he watches some of the program's participants progress from risk to clinical manifestation to full-blown illness to death. "You can't help being impressed by the human drama of it," he says. Indeed, the sharing of stories, both happy and dire, is often his best tool for compelling people to weigh seriously the pros and cons of testing. "Most people," he says, "resonate more to the stories than to the psychological tests and statistical results...
...chilliest moments in The Ice Storm comes in an edgy scene where Ben tells Elena, "I guess we're just on the verge of saying something--saying something to each other." Saying something harsh and truthful would be a breaking of the code, of the lies that sustain their marriage and keep it arid...
...Wilson seems eager to join the long list of government officals who have blocked Native Americans' attempts to sustain themselves...