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...novel Falling Angel) rarely make it to the screen, for a simple reason: the significant action has occurred a dozen years before, so the entire plot must be exposition pocked with explosions of violence. Parker, an itchy director (Midnight Express, Fame) with a bang-on sense of textbook timing, occasionally tries to pump up his flashback talkathon with chase scenes that distract from the film's mood. But he has located a chic, grim style for the story. Garish, ominous colors flash vividly across his monochrome palette. The streets keep sweating rain, and clouds loom over the bayou like threats...
...promoting his seminars, Skousen touts his links to Ronald Mann, deputy staff director of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution. Mann is a former board member of Skousen's National Center for Constitutional Studies. He provided historical engravings for a textbook by Skousen, although he insists he has nothing to do with supporting Skousen's seminars. The textbook, also titled The Making of America, is being sold by the California Commission on the Bicentennial...
Read recalls one student who, during a BSC discussion, said, "It's nice to be in a place where students can understand what it's like when you have to buy a textbook in the morning, xerox it, and return it in the afternoon...
Even Harvard professors can be stumped by their students sometimes, especially when the students use the professor's own textbook...
...American history. But where such an epic approach is not guided by inspiration, the result is often technically satisfying but not terribly original work. The Handlins' book at times simply reads like a well-researched, in-depth look at the same issues that your American history high school textbook covered...