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...Moral Tales Eric Rohmer The latest box from Criterion is one of its biggest--and grandest. Rohmer's lovely, chatty, pensive comedies (including My Night at Maud's and Claire's Knee) arrive with six of the director's short films, his written versions of the Tales in a 262-page book and a pamphlet of essays by top critics. The package serves as both a tribute to Rohmer and a display of Criterion's excellence...
...What's modestly refreshing about the way this story is told by director Eric Core and writer Brad Gann is that the person with the largest doubts about going pro is Papale himself. Most of the guys down at the bar are all for him, and though his father warns him against getting his hopes u - a man can only endure so much failure, he tells him - he soon enough sees what his son's success could mean to the guys down at the plant (who are, of course, on strike...
...according to an estimate calculated for TIME by the Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute at the University of South Carolina. But Americans have a tendency to be die-hard optimists, literally. It is part of what makes the country great--and vincible. "There are four stages of denial," says Eric Holdeman, director of emergency management for Seattle's King County, which faces a significant earthquake threat. "One is, it won't happen. Two is, if it does happen, it won't happen to me. Three: if it does happen to me, it won't be that bad. And four...
Drinking a diet coke, Andrea told homicide sergeant Eric Mehl what she had done and why. She did not hate the children. Nor was she mad at them. "They weren't developing correctly," she said. The soft-spoken sergeant asked how long she had considered murder. Two years, she said. "Since I realized I have not been a good mother to them." Mehl watched her movements. She looked him in the eye. She nodded. Sometimes she answered, "Yes, sir." But she would sit in 15 seconds of stone-cold silence if he asked too much. She could give only short...
...DIED. Sam Myers, 70, Delta bluesman and master harmonica player whose 1956 single Sleeping in the Ground was later covered by musicians from Robert Cray to Eric Clapton; of throat cancer; in East Dallas, Texas. In 1986, Myers revived his career as front man for Dallas-based Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets, considered among the U.S.'s best blues ensembles and the winner of nine W.C. Handy awards-the blues' Grammys...