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Kaplan, a professor at Loyola University in Chicago, writes with the pedantic style and method one might expect from a creative writing teacher. A hefty portion of the story, like filler in dog food, merely occupies space and adds mass but is unable to offer nutrition or satisfaction. The plot is contrived and stilted, irritating the audience rather than entrancing it. The book engenders the horrible realization that literature's tap of Great Fiction...
...past decade, tougher laws against drunken drivers have dragged tens of thousands of offenders through protracted court battles and ultimately to jail. Now the police possess a faster and more effective method of keeping drinkers off the roads. Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia have passed administrative-license-revocati on laws that give police the right to seize the licenses of drivers who fail or refuse sobriety tests...
Lotteries are already a "painless" way for states to raise revenue, but Minnesota may have found the easiest method yet. Next year the state's lottery, with the help of Control Data Corp., will test-market a system linking as many as 10,000 Nintendo video-game sets to the lottery's computers via phone lines. For a $200 advance deposit, money-mad Minnesotans will be given the necessary equipment to play all the state's gambling games at home. Despite barriers to prevent betting by minors, critics question the ethics of turning a children's toy into...
...INDIAN RUNNER. Method mannerism in the '60s Midwest; bringin' the Vietnam War back home; 90 minutes of simmering before a family explodes. From these tired conventions (which the movie embraces like new truths), writer-director Sean Penn has found a stark camera style that ignites behavioral sparks. Stay tuned; this kid has talent...
...freed slaves and budding Klansmen of the Reconstruction South. Pushing a complex reality under the Old Sod solves the problem of having to create substantial roles for black characters. When hired to write the book, Ripley insisted on a contemporary treatment of race, specifically the avoidance of dialect. Her method is to retain speech patterns while providing elocution lessons...