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Even when nothing is doing, something is doing, for Frank's driver partners are all loony in different ways. John Goodman's false reasonableness, Ving Rhames' born-again religiosity, Tom Sizemore's addiction to violence--nothing about any of them can help Frank. The film is full of casual dark humor, but what's best about it is its resistance to the conventional three-act movie structure. Its string of incident is relentless, virtually undifferentiated, like life, and contains no promise of uplifting resolution. Bringing Out the Dead is like its title--blunt, truthful, uncompromising. It is hard...
Contact consists of three spoken one-act dramas--Stroman calls them short stories--performed by dancer-actors and accompanied by a delectably eclectic jukebox of recordings by everybody from Benny Goodman and Stephane Grappelli to Robert Palmer and the Squirrel Nut Zippers. Nobody onstage sings a note. In Swinging, Fragonard's 1767 painting of an aristocratic young lady (Stephanie Michels) frolicking in a forest glade becomes a real-life menage a trois even kinkier than it looks. Did You Move?, set in an Italian restaurant in Queens circa 1954, is a bittersweet vignette about an unhappy housewife (Karen Ziemba...
Over the last 25 years, there have been 23 junior faculty members in the astronomy department. Only three--Professors of Astronomy Jonathan A. Grindlay, Abraham Loeb and Alyssa Goodman--were eventually granted tenure...
Wolff says several new tenure appointments, including that of associate professor Alyssa Goodman, have indicated that "the climate is changing." The visiting committees' conclusion, Wolff says, was "The department is doing the best...
...giving tenure to [Geller] was a mistake," says fellow astronomer Alyssa Goodman...