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...total of 11 innings separated Harvard pitching’s last scoreless frame in Game 1—the second inning of its loss to Fullerton—and Missouri’s scoreless fifth, the Tigers’ first failure to score on Saturday...
...describe Cincinnati, Ohio, 1963, a teeming meditation on that much contested ground, the American Dream. A bedroom set greets us in a store window. At its foot there's a slapdash cornucopia of consumer goods: radios, a record player, power tools. In the upper half of the frame, which reports a reflection in the window, we see a twilit slice of Main Street, U.S.A., where a trusty lamppost rises like a beacon and a church steeple makes its dogged case for the spiritual life. Now look deeply into the center of the image to find its tiny punch line...
...head--or, even better, made more ambiguous--by its smallest elements. He also helped redefine the knucklehead weirdness of snapshot photography as a powerful new aesthetic. The foregrounds washed out by flash, the figures cut off by the edge of the picture, the odd foot that pokes into the frame--like Jimi Hendrix, turning the "error" of amplifier feedback into another kind of guitar riff, Friedlander used those "gaffes" to get places where mere perfection could never take him. His pictures, with their lyrical congestion, don't resolve into a single meaning. They have a dozen. Not one of them...
Since his film debut in 1990, Giamatti, 37, has appeared in plenty of Terminal-or-worse-type fare, usually stepping in from the edge of the frame to provide a memorable jolt of misanthropy or cluelessness that makes the star--be it Jim Carrey (Man on the Moon), Martin Lawrence (Big Momma's House) or Ben Affleck (Paycheck)--appear heroic by comparison. Giamatti finally got the chance to move to the middle of the screen in 2003's American Splendor and 2004's Sideways, and he infused comic-book-writing depressive Harvey Pekar and wine-loving, self-hating failed novelist...
...want to do things that conform to my time frame, not someone else's." MATTHEW KHALIL, senior at UCLA, who says he goes to the movies about once a month but, like many other Americans, prefers to watch DVDs at home...