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Interspersed with these vignettes of urban romance are a few stories that provide a psychological history for Beller's characters. These pieces trace the young adulthood of Alex Fader, a fatherless only child who tries hard to suppress his love for an often elusive mother. Ultimately, though, Alex forges an enviable closeness with her, and that leaves the reader with hope for all the floundering, grownup versions of him in this spirited collection...
Some recent journalism has suggested that many members of the much broader Patriot movement trace their involvement to a key negative experience with the Federal Government. A close look at Koernke's background, however, suggests not a sharp turn but a straight line. From his teens, Koernke (who declined to be interviewed for this story) has exhibited a fascination with guns and guerrilla warfare, an intense dislike of authority, a grandiose vision of himself with an attraction to the idea of martyrdom, and, as one ally puts it, the ability to "talk until most people have turned to sand...
...this malange of fiction and fact is longer on intellectual pleasures than emotional resonance. Ackroyd has Dickensian ambitions and tries to show a city full of interlocking coincidences leading inexorably to tragedy. He does so with considerable skill but untimely haste. The intricacies of his plot seem ultimately to trace vectors rather than lives...
...that reason, some of Ambergene's potential competitors view the company's business strategy as something of a gimmick. There's hardly any need to prospect for ancient life forms in amber, says David Miller, vice president of research and development at EcoScience, based in Worcester, Massachusetts. Microbes that trace their roots back millions of years exist all over the place, even in suburban backyards. Moreover, as a source for discovering new, more effective drugs, amber is by no means a sure thing. Why not focus instead on compounds produced by the billions of living microbes still waiting...
Except for a few false notes in the beginning, "The Perez Family" is a superlative work, profoundly funny, erotic and insightful, with a trace of melancholy that wafts through the film like Juan's Proustian memories of a day at the beach in pre-Castro Cuba. I can't remember the last time a movie gave me this much pleasure. "The Perez Family" is a rapturous dream of a film...