Word: wrecked
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...earlier admonition having been ignored, the Supreme Court eschewed subtlety this time and bluntly stopped the Florida Supreme Court in its tracks--and stayed its willfulness. By 5-4, mind you, and Rehnquist doesn't like 5-4 in questions of this magnitude. But to avoid a constitutional train wreck, he was ready for the court to assert itself and thus bring a welcome finality to the postelection madness...
...minor characters and chorus ensure that the audience does not daydream. Best is Thomas Derrah as the Sentry, the farcical messenger who comes to Creon bearing bad news. He evokes a bratty 12-year-old impersonating a defensive but cynical rail worker who has caused a six car train wreck...
Since then, Rich has published 19 volumes of poetry and four books of nonfiction prose, accumulating a list of accolades including two Guggenheim Fellowships (1952 and 1961), a MacArthur Prize, a National Book Award for Diving into the Wreck (1974; she accepted with Audre Lorde and Alice Walker in the name of all women who are silenced), the Fund for Human Dignity Award of the National Gay Task Force (1981), the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (1986) and, in 1996, the Academy of American Poets' Tanning Prize...
...trailers for Unbreakable show Bruce Willis as David Dunn, the only survivor of a disastrous train wreck, and Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah Price, who seeks Dunn out to offer an explanation for his good fortune. No mention is made of comic books or their applications to real life, which appears to be Shyamalan's thesis and purpose for making this movie, and a metaphor debated frequently throughout the film. The twist ending of this film, a trick that Shyamalan became famous for in The Sixth Sense both supports and distorts the metaphor, and leaves the viewer unsure about whether...
Shyamalan wrote Unbreakable, the story of a man who survives a horrific train wreck and the stranger he encounters afterward, with two actors in mind: Willis (as the survivor) and Jackson (as the stranger). He was drawn to Willis for his Everyman quality and to Jackson for his incantatory elocution. Jackson returns the compliment. "[Shyamalan] knows how to use language," says the actor. "He gives characters an opportunity to express themselves. They tell you how they feel about certain things, how they feel about certain people, how they feel about themselves. But he also doesn't do it in such...