With its simplistic psychological motivations and convenient (if bloody) resolution, Romper Stomper is essentially another troubled-teen social-problem film. It’s dragged roughly out of the realm of the predictable, though, by […]
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Run and Gun
Sometimes you can catch a pass and raise your arms and flick your wrist and release the ball from your fingertips, lofting it on a perfect arc toward the front […]
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Naked Truth
The host is friendly and gracious. Flaunting short hair and a long body, he stands sandwiched between the building’s frosted-glass, opaque door and a gray flannel curtain that conceals any […]
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That’s the Ticket
Acrescent moon hangs on the horizon, dividing black night from the dawn breaking orange over Union Station. A block down Massachusetts Avenue NW, the door to the old Gale school […]
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Stephen Carter
30 T H U R S D A Y Has this country, in its desperate efforts to determine where the dividing line between the rights of church and state should […]
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Frank Convoy
30 T H U R S D A Y In his new novel, Frank Conroy constructs a Bildungsroman wielding details the way high-steel crews do girders: slowly and methodically, yet […]
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Paul Hemphill
29 W E D N E S D A Y Einstein said it “shackles the brain.” That’s a good summary of the masochistic appeal of chess, a game that causes […]
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Paul Hemphill
28 T U E S D A Y From Bull Connor’s attack dogs and water hoses to murderous bombings of black churches and homes, Birmingham symbolized the evil of Southern […]
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Tweed Roosevelt
27 M O N D A Y Five years after vacating the White House, Teddy Roosevelt took an expedition down the River of Doubt—an uncharted waterway in Brazil’s Amazon rain […]