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Into this somber setting comes Isabel (Bujold), a girl passing unsteadily into womanhood. Returning to the family's 200-year-old farmhouse for the funeral of her mother, she reluctantly stays on to tend her aged uncle (Gerard Parkes), a walking reflection of her long-gone relatives, who stare down eerily from faded photographs on the wall. With the spring thaw come the chills: the specter of her dead brother looming in the doorway, a face glowing in the darkened pantry, a bloody, headless chicken twitching in the melting snow...
...tiny traffic island at the juncture of Fourth Avenue and Astor Place, where Manhattan's Bowery slum, hippieland, an industrial zone and a growing clump of theatres all converge. No one, from hippie to day laborer, fails to turn his head as he walks by, an some stop to stare. The work has become an image in my mind which is always positively associated with the area. This one sculpture gave the Astor Place neighborhood a coherent image which symbolize and summerizes its disparate parts...
...trouble to fit in a squash court and a bowling alley, as well as an extra sauna. Family compounds, such as the Rockefellers' 3,500-acre complex near Tarrytown, may also go in for an 18-hole golf course. All this avoids those tense country clubs, where mere millionaires stare...
...walk two blocks uptown to get to the only open gate. There I squeeze through the three-foot "out" opening in the police barricade, and I feel for my wallet to be sure I've got the two I.D.'s necessary to get back into my college. I stare at the cops. They stare back and see a red armband and long hair and they perhaps tap their nightsticks on the barricade. They're looking at a radical leftist...
...Jackie Kennedy, for all her highly touted grace and sophistication, hadn't even the courtesy to return a greeting from Richard Nixon when both of them were mourners at Martin Luther King's funeral. It wasn't even at a political rally (even then an icy stare would be ill-mannered), but at a dignified church service that this show of ignorance occurred. What makes it doubly ironic is that it happened at the funeral of a man who would never have done this type of thing himself...