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...produced some dramatic face-offs. In a New York City courtroom last January, Rose Falcone, the mother of an 18-year-old who was murdered during the carjacking of his Jeep, was permitted to address the killer, Edward Summers. "I just want to ask you," said Falcone, her voice taut with rage, "why didn't you just take the Jeep? Why? Why?" Said prosecutor William Mooney: "She seemed like a great weight had been lifted from her shoulders...
...Burt Lancaster, a 1960 Oscar winner for his role as flamboyant sham evangelist Elmer Gantry, died of a heart attack at age 80. His career spanned 70 films. But the Lancaster image that lingers for many is the once scandalous "From Here to Eternity" beach scene, in which a taut Burt and a svelte Deborah Kerr nearly get swept away...
...free-associates, remembering on the title track, for example, a friend who died too soon. In the second verse of Western Hero, Young sounds as if he had been touched by the D-day memorials just past, but instead of summoning old shades once again, his lyric constructs a taut envoi to American idealism...
...beauty of a sunset. These actors do get the shouting scenes right; their abrupt, strangulated outbursts are appropriate to people who have been bred to optimism and implosion, not to the articulation of rage. And Van Dyck finds wit and poignancy in her several roles. She often has the taut stillness of a woman listening for catastrophe. But the rest of the cast often pushes too hard. Any overacting brutalizes Cheever's prose; mugging is the artistic equivalent of a mugging...
...Though it was a display of insouciance for a man about to be charged with complicity in a 1982 car bombing that killed a pregnant woman and wounded 63 others, there was no masking the tired image Carlos cut as he stood in white pants, his mauve pullover stretched taut by mid-life paunch, his short hair a muddy gray. At 44, he looked like a washed- up playboy...