Word: working
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Little Melvin will bring Nate--a decent guy despite his shabby work--to an uncomfortable end. Indeed, no one in this movie gets what he or she really wants or deserves. Even the romance between Ben's older brother Van (Adrien Brody) and his Wasp princess Dubbie (Carolyn Murphy) ends badly, when her ethereal perfection turns out to be only skin- (and coiffure-) deep...
Sarah makes good on her promise. And Greene makes good on the theme that dominated his best work: "the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God." Maurice, of course, is outraged by Sarah's disappearance--and sets a private detective on her. He's looking for an earthly explanation--a rival lover--not an unearthly one, for Sarah's defection. For her part, Sarah remains unsure what has happened to her. Was her prayer answered? Or was Maurice merely knocked out by the explosion...
...eagerly, with a midrange, clipped California accent, his voice filling the room with vague blandishments about how eager he was to stay sober and how grateful he was to his fellow agents who had intervened to send him here and how he was looking forward to getting back to work...
...Town, the myths and tales of the Caribbean, the wisdom and fire of the Old Testament--he drew from it all, creating reggae music, rebel psalms, that rang with poetry and prophecy. Romance, for him, was not incompatible with revolution; bullets and ballads were both the stuff of his work. He envisioned a world beyond this one but never lost sight of the horrors and joys of the here and now. "If you know what life is worth," he sang, "you will look for yours on earth...
...exciting as the news about Visudyne is, there are some important caveats to bear in mind. The drug is not a cure. At best, it preserves the status quo. It will not restore vision that has already been lost. Nor does it work for everyone. Company officials estimate that only one-quarter to one-half of the 200,000 or so Americans who develop the severest form of macular degeneration each year will benefit. But for them, it could be the window on the world that allows them to maintain their independence...