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...Snow Angels is built on the same yearnings and desperation, the same threat of eventual violence; but, happily, it has an emotional density that trumps its familiarity. Winter is approaching in a small town where the high school band teacher (a brief role played with curt comic brio by Tom Noonan) shouts challenges at the students: "Do you have a sledgehammer in your heart? Are you ready to be my sledgehammer?" The hammers of hell beat in the hearts of these frosty folk; for Snow Angels, like a bunch of other films set in cold climates (The Ice Storm...
...temptation to embroider an anecdote is nearly universal. Did Uncle Charlie really parade around the house stark naked when he got drunk that time, or did he just strip to his underwear? Did it really snow 3 ft. in half an hour during that storm last winter? It's a long way from this to imagining that you were adopted by wolves during the Holocaust, but you can sort of get what Defonseca is driving at when she says in her defense that the yarn "is not actually reality, but my reality...
...serve the public interest. The requirement is not just an intriguing concept; it is the law. When broadcasters air an intensely violent premium-cable program like Dexter, in which the protagonist is a sociopathic serial killer, the public interest is not served; it is assaulted. Tim Winter, President, Parents Television Council, LOS ANGELES...
Israel has ended operation Winter Storm, pulling its troops out of the Gaza Strip after five bloody days and more than 100 deaths, but the real blizzard is yet to come. Condoleeza Rice is in the Middle East trying to revive U.S.-sponsored peace negotiations, but Hamas is still lobbing rockets into Israel, Fatah is refusing to talk to Israel, and Israel is preparing...
...decision is a light at the end of the tunnel for acting Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam, who told The Crimson earlier this winter how “content, relaxed, and happy” his predecessor Gross looks, months after being relieved of the burdens of the office...