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...White Sox game. And at the outset, this final stop in Cambridge portends another embarrassing disconnect between author and reader: “a gay British guy and a straight American teenager walk into a café” (Algiers, to be precise) sounds more like a weak joke than the convening of kindred spirits. Circumstances don’t help, either–the room is noisy, and I have to lean forward and ask for frequent repetitions to understand Hollinghurst’s Oxonian accent and quiet, rapid delivery.His opinion of my dubious comprehension, as well...
...Although Mendes references ideas from other war movies, he donates new ones to the genre. When the soldiers march through a night lit only by oil well fires, he gives us a harrowing tableau just as apocalyptic as anything Coppola imagined. However, Mendes is hamstrung by a weak script. Few of the characters get the development they deserve. Gyllenhaal does a serviceable job of slowly going insane, and Sarsgaard is searing; he’s far from the fey foil he usually plays. But Foxx is forced to do the best he can with a one-dimensional role and Chris...
...came together for a magnificent denouement, you appreciated them tenfold. After a very solid episode to begin the fifth season, I felt confident that Larry David’s brilliance had not yet eroded. But the second episode, entitled “The Bowtie,” was very weak--over-populated with incidents in which David is just a little too obnoxious, and a bit under-populated with the aforementioned coalescing plot developments. Then again, the last three episodes have been among the series’ best, so perhaps all hope is not lost. The ending to Episode...
...weakness of the Core Curriculum as it exists today is that it provides too weak a counterweight to the specializing tendencies of the concentrations,” the report says...
...pitted himself against the University administration during negotiations for better pay and the unfolding of a discrimination lawsuit filed in the 1990s by a fellow guard. McCombe retired under pressure in 2003, when his health required him to carry around an oxygen tank. He suffered from diabetes and a weak lung. His post, particularly in later years, placed him at the heart of the campus, where he could be seen nights patrolling the grounds around Sever Hall. “He did everything he could for his fellow guards, he fought to the end,” said his widow...