Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ponette How can a child cope with her mother's violent death? Little Ponette (the amazing Victoire Thivisol) simply refuses to believe her mother is gone and waits desperately for her return. In a morbid year for films, Jacques Doillon's shattering French drama gets at a rare truth: surrendering to grief can give one a reason to live...
...scene. The end product is rock charged with lightning, as well as winking cultural commentary that suggests the question, In a world built on images and style, is there anything to hold on to? This is smart, self-aware stuff, acknowledging pop's shallowness while panning for nuggets of truth...
Along comes this painful and murky Boston murder trial, then, in which the truth of whatever happened on Feb. 4 was known only to the 19-year-old au pair and to eight-month-old Matthew Eappen, who was in her charge, and who is dead. The public thinks it sees injustice in the second-degree murder verdict the jury handed down. But then it thinks it sees injustice in the reversal by Judge Hiller Zobel, when he reduced the verdict to manslaughter and ordered no more jail time for Woodward. Adding to the frustration was the memory...
...hours of his recent town meeting in Akron, Ohio, the President searched and scratched, picked and poked to bring repressed truth and bias and hurt to the surface. Such was his attempt to start a "national conversation on race." It managed to go nowhere...
...Sherman in Hersh?s controversial Kennedy expose ?The Dark Side of Camelot.? Try this quote for size: ?You were on the most elite assignment in the Secret Service and you were there watching an elevator or a door because the president was inside with two hookers.? Regardless of the truth of the incident, it?s not exactly what Merletti would call loyalty to your old boss...