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...question of scale. Hester Street, about the lives of some Jewish immigrants in the New York of 1896, is what is commonly considered a "little movie." Specifically, this means a film made with little money, cast with unfamiliar actors and confined to a narrow scope. The customary response to little movies is the halfhearted, affectionate encouragement bestowed on a distant relative who wants to go into show business. Rather than making a virtue of its modesty, however, Hester Street trades on it. The movie demands to be liked for its good intentions...
Jerome Wiener, president of MIT, was also unfamiliar with the wager. He was, however, "certain" that the Red Sox would win the World Series, he said...
...Swicher, after charging Poet James Dickey with drunken driving and disorderly conduct. The author of the riveting adventure novel Deliverance had just driven his 1968 Jaguar off the road and into a utility pole in Columbia, S.C. "There is a kind of complex of roads which I am unfamiliar with," explained Dickey, 52, after spending four hours in jail and posting $132.50 in bail. "I took a wrong turn, and the road didn't go anywhere." Now facing two months behind bars and the loss of his driving privileges if convicted, Dickey plans to maintain control of his poetic...
...present at all in the racing article, and he takes on an unusual, ghostly Monopoly-playing persona in Atlantic City. The removal helps, because it gets rid of the chummy, comfortable tone that dominates the rest of the book. McPhee's writing works best when he is confronting the unfamiliar and making an effort to convey it, not when he's recounting things that only reinforce his own view of the world...
...otherness," of which echoes are heard to this day. One of the areas in which they persist, however faintly, is that of art. Given the collections of it in the U.S., not to mention the undying appetite for Oriental carpets, one could hardly say that Islamic art is unfamiliar to Americans. Yet the ceramics and glasswork, the architecture and mural decoration, the metalwork and (except for Mughal miniatures) the paintings that form the relics of this vast imperial culture are much less known to museumgoers than their equivalents from Japan or China...