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These brooding half-truths are the night thoughts of Ellen Gulden, a brilliant, self-absorbed and slightly chilly young woman who goes home grudgingly from a promising magazine job in Manhattan to tend her dying mother. She's the only acceptable nurse. Her college-age brothers can't help much. Besides, her pampered father, a philandering literature professor on whose preening intellect she has modeled her own, has demanded that she come. Ellen, once the town prodigy, now awkwardly learns to change sheets and cook supper...
...York was a respite. By all accounts, Carter made the most of his first visit to Manhattan. The Times flew him in and put him up at the Marriott Marquis just off Times Square. His spirits soaring, he took to calling New York "my town...
With its forays into Manhattan's Washington Square Park for lessons in chess from a sympathetic father figure (here it's the always authoritative Samuel L. Jackson), the movie might aim to be a Searching for Bobby Fischer in the Hood. But Fresh is so much more: a really good film, for a start, made with a subtle precision that suggests a Vermeer landscape of the ninth circle of hell. Fresh alchemizes the terrifying cliches of urban melodrama into annihilating poetry. A guarantee: the film's last shot -- just a boy's face, in ruins -- will break your heart...
Take a drive out of Manhattan, first east, then south, and in about an hour you arrive at one of the most pleasing monuments to activist government to be found in America: Jones Beach, a magnificent ocean park built on a sandbar off the south shore of Long Island. Jones Beach opened 65 years ago, Governor Franklin Roosevelt of New York presiding. But the idea had erupted full blown from the mind of that public-works genius and master builder, Robert Moses. A few years earlier, arriving by boat on that desolate stretch of sand, he sketched on the back...
...staff at Manhattan's Lower East Side Needle Exchange, in the area where police claim the drug was bought, told TIME Daily the brand isn't well known on the street and noted that a bag labeled China Cat was found with only one of the bodies. Instead of a craze, many users think, the tragedies might be isolated. "People think what happened was the guy who made it probably didn't know what the hell he was doing," said Tim Thayer, a 15-year heroin user who helps at the Exchange.Post to National Affairs "Legalize Drugs...