Word: washed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mesmerized as we watch this cabbie who is in turn obsessed with the "scum" around him. In Travis's words, he sees how "all the animals come out at night," and hopes that "someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets." Failing that, Travis attempts the same himself, ultimately seeking a sort of immortality, whether as an assassin of a political figure (the Senator, candidate for president) or as a noble representative of clean justice. To the very last minute of the film (when the screen changes to an eerie negative), "Taxi Driver" absorbs...
...recent, eerily serene essays on gardening excepted. Her primal theme, repeated well past the point of obsession, has been her abiding resentment of her mother. A remarkable short-story collection, At the Bottom of the River, and two autobiographical novels, Annie John and Lucy, have not been enough to wash her feelings out to sea, and she restates them again in Autobiography. Anyone who imagines that tensions between husband and wife exceed those between parent and child is not paying attention to Jamaica Kincaid...
...Vancouver at Winnipeg, 3 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Colorado, 3 p.m. Dallas at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m. Chicago at San Jose, 3 p.m. Chicago at Anaheim, 8 p.m. Florida at Tampa Bay, 3 p.m. Buffalo at Boston, 3 p.m. New Jersey at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Wash., 7:30 p.m. Montreal at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. L. Angeles at Calgary...
...careful what you put on your computer. Most people wash their hands before they eat; you never know what you've picked up. Similarly, remember that when you get files via floppy disks or the Internet, you're trusting the health of your computer to other individuals, who may not have disinfected their files...
TODAYTOMORROW Ottawa at Hartford, 7 p.m. Hartford at Boston, 7 p.m. Detroit at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m. Ottawa at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m. Toronto at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m. Buffalo at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Wash., 8 p.m. Washin. at N. Jersey, 7:30 p.m. Winnipeg at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Colorado at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. Anaheim at Calgary, 9:30 p.m. Chicago at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Florida at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m. Florida at Calgary, 8 p.m. Los Angeles at S. Jose, 10:30 p.m. Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 8:30 p.m. Tampa...