Word: voiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Douglas Coupland took a big risk in titling his latest short story collection Life After God. After all, the ontological void isn't really a new subject. It seems as if we've been through it all before: the Hemingway version, the Camus version, and countless others. It almost seems presumptuous to try to breathe new life into the subject...
...sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of giving; to help me be kind..."Despite this attempt to articulate a new hope, Life After God soon begins to suffer, not from void, but from ambiguity...
...social life, and it will destroy any sense of a house community. Presently, students seek out the atmosphere and architecture that pleases them. Randomization will leave them no say in the basic decision of where to live. Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III has voiced concerns about a void in students' social lives. While he has suggested that the Loker Commons will help fill this gap, the houses are the natural site for students' social lives. The houses may be lacking in fact, but they should be the target of administrators' attempts to revitalize Harvard's social life...
...adult Selena should not be in the movie. In King's book, she disappears as a teen-ager; Gilroy brings her back tediously to confront the issues involving her father's death. She should have stayed in the void. Leigh's Selena is a whiskey-swilling, cigarette-smoking caricature of a journalist, who spends the majority of her scenes complaining. Jennifer Jason Leigh has her moments with Selena, especially in the epiphany scene on the ferry, but for the most part Leigh's acting skills are wasted by the script. She just reprises her addiction roles from "Dorothy Parker...
...time period just before The X-Files, Fox has launched the eerie cyberthriller VR.5 (Fridays, 8 p.m. est). Last Wednesday the network introduced Sliders, about a charmingly disheveled physics student who creates a void in his basementthat transports him to different parallel universes every week. Elsewhere, Showtime has just launched a revival of the 1960s anthology series The Outer Limits (Sundays, 10 p.m. est), which will prey on fears of everything from alien organisms to virtual reality. These shows are joining a sizable armada of sci-fi programming already on the air, ranging from nbc's SeaQuest DSV and Earth...