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...life the past haunts us. In the movies it has become a throwaway line. No one seems to care anymore how characters reach the pretty pass in which the first reel finds them. No one seems to remember the power of history to grant coherence to chaotic experience...
...MOVIES . . . LONE STAR: In life the past haunts us. In the movies it has become a throwaway line. No one seems to care anymore how characters reach the pretty pass in which the first reel finds them. No one seems to remember the power of history to grant coherence to chaotic experience. No one but John Sayles, that is. His Lone Star has become, in limited release, this summer1s movie of choice for grownups who still regard intricate narrative and careful characterization as the most treasurable of special effects, says TIME's Richard Schickel. There are no explosions here, just...
...postmodernism for the masses or that it represents the ultimate in cynicism, depending on how forgiving your mood is when you encounter something like Mission: Impossible. But old-fashioned narrative connection, unchic though it may be, is not to be sneezed at. For it is out of those little throwaway scenes where people hint at loves, hates, beliefs, disbeliefs, that connections between audience and movie--what Hollywood's wise old hacks call "rooting interest"--arises...
...Clark and screenwriter Harmony Korine have worked at numbing the viewer with scenes of anomic decay. It's not the rough huff of the sex play with girls who look to be on the green side of puberty, though these trysts pack their own sick wallop. It's the throwaway brutality (the kids beating up a black man in the park), the notion that the world is there to be spat at or pissed on. In one of the lighter moments, Telly's pal Casper (Justin Pierce) dips a tampon in a red fruit drink, then sucks it dry. Still...
...people's private lives. But a growing recognition that marriages are not to be entered into-or dissolved-lightly because of the enormous social and economic costs is dawning in some unlikely places and crossing political lines. Conservatives who espouse "family values'' have long lamented the trend toward throwaway marriage and quickie divorce. But in President Clinton's recent State of the Union speech he too took time out to introduce the Revs. John and Diana Cherry, whose ministry convinces couples "to come back together to save their marriages and to raise their kids." Meanwhile, there is a new sensitivity...