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...guess they are just some fanatics % who talked Dad into letting them use the place." Yet it was only a few months later that Billy had his own conversion experience. "I didn't have any tears, I didn't have any emotion, I didn't hear any thunder, there was no lightning," he says. "But right there, I made my decision for Christ. It was as simple as that, and as conclusive...
...stands in A Big Storm Knocked It Over, Colwin's idea is that normal men and women can sometimes lead reasonably happy lives. This insight hardly merits the implied crisis of the big storm of her title. Colwin draws a parallel between a sudden thunder-storm in the country which knocks physical things over, and marriage, pregnancy and parenthood, which knock abstract things over. Don't fret, she advises, it's not the end of the world. Yeah, and? The book does not empower the reader to face the world; it does not inspire the reader to have faith...
...short, McArthur's presentation stoleRudenstine's thunder...
...games, or rides -- they are so new there is no consensus on what to call them -- are basically complex versions of three familiar movie genres and video-game formats: the Star Wars space adventure (shooting things), the Days of Thunder road test (running over things) and the Rocky boxing match (punching, kicking and gouging people). These are mostly boy toys made for the computer generation. You won't see a VR game of some sentimental senior- citizen film -- unless it's Driving Miss Daisy Crazy, with the flivver flying down back roads and a convoy of rednecks in pursuit...
...aredisappointed at such weakness, remembering theirown unabashed acts of bravery in the face ofadversity. The imagery accompanying the tales ofLena and her mother Ying Ying (France Nuyen) isparticularly suggestive, contrasting theoverabundance of passion in the mother's past,with the daughter's current emotional void. In aflashback filled with thunder and lightening, YingYing recalls a fight with her unfaithful husband...