Word: swamp
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...imagination race wild. "Maybe it's my blue-collar background, but work meant to me that you come home covered with sweat," he says. "Now I just have to brush away the eraser shavings." Larson may dirty his hands soon. He is thinking of turning his backyard into a swamp stocked with salamanders, frogs and koi. And, of course, childhood memories...
...rain didn't have a huge effect on the field until the fourth quarter," he was saying. "By that time the field was just a swamp...
...closed-circuit monitor in a 7-Eleven store. You could find the proceedings funny or tedious; Jarmusch was too hip to care. He does have an eye, though, and aided by Cinematographer Robby Muller he makes Down by Law a ravishing shadow play. A canoe knifes through a tapioca swamp; the chiaroscuro that swathes a prostitute's body shows her proud and pouting; the long, matching faces of Lurie and Co-Star Tom Waits catch the furtive light like desanctified El Grecos...
...plotline is so secondary to the action that Jarmusch doesn't even bother to explain how the threesome escapes from their swamp-bound prison. The setting is just a convenient way for putting three strange people in the same room for a long time, just as Jarmusch did in his first film, Stranger than Paradise. In Paradise, the long pauses and spaced-out banality of the dialogue was so odd that it quickly became funny, similar to what might happen while watching 200 laundry detergent commercials in a row. Jarmusch dishes out more of the same in Law, only with...
...ancestral home most had never seen or even heard of until Redford contacted them. They are, says Redford, "people who have never truly been home before." The Aug. 30 gathering comes exactly two centuries after 80 slaves arrived from Africa aboard the brig Camden to help carve from the swamp a plantation where as many as 328 slaves would eventually labor...