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Letters at 3AM: A Prayer at the End of My Rope
The crucial element of prayer is "no alibis"
"...at the end of a very long and frayed rope, and it didn't seem that rope would continue to..."

Feb. 11, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Give Him Enough Rope
John Walch's new plays -- the monologue The Circumference of a Squirrel and the epic The Dinosaur Within -- are inextricably linked: In their ambitious scope, in their genesis, and in the amount of national attention they're generating for this award-winning Austin playwright.
"...on the beach in Mexico, he happened upon a rope that was buried deep in the sand. It was,..."

April 20, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Rope
"...John Dall. Universal Hitchcock Series: Hitchcock famously experimented in Rope with temporal structure (the film is shot in supposed..."

Aug. 26, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gay Place
Investitures, Queerlympics, Rope Bondage, and Cheerleaders peaceably coexist in your week of gay
"...JAPANESE ROPE BONDAGE A lesson session with rope master, Sir Giotto..."

Sept. 13, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

Novitiate
An original take on a crisis of faith
"...the novitiates via humiliating public confessions and the occasional rope whipping. Several gradients above Torquemada, to be sure, but..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Denial
Holocaust courtroom drama parallels contemporary issues
"...to the stand, but to give Irving just enough rope to hang himself by his own ugly petard. Wilkinson,..."

Oct. 14, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

After Words
Marcia Gay Harden stars as a lonely woman on vacation in an exotic locale
"...quiet desperation of someone at the end of her rope. Here, the sad and lonely Jane (Harden), a middle-aged..."

Aug. 21, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

We Are What We Are
This effectively creepy horror story gives new meaning to the family film.
"...Emma (DePaiva) falls ill while purchasing shady-looking home implements (rope, duct tape, shears), the bearded backwoodsman tells daughters Rose..."

Oct. 11, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Star Trek Into Darkness
The Star Trek reboot may be overly familiar, but it's still a hell of a lot of fun.
"...he still seems hesitant to test just how much rope he has. A franchise all his to play with,..."

May 17, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Monsieur Lazhar
In a Montreal classroom, adolescent students and their Algerian substitute teacher help one another cope with grief. The film was an Oscar nominee.
"...the far end of the room hanging by a rope, an obvious suicide. The 11- and 12-year-olds in the..."

May 4, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Season of the Witch
Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman play 14th century knights commanded to transport a witch believed to be the source of the Black Plague.
"...transporting the (alleged) sorceress across hill, dale, and rickety rope bridge to her final judgement. Accompanied by a quartet..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Perfect Holiday
In this lightweight yuletide fluffery, a young girl turns to a shopping-mall Santa to find a husband for her divorced mother.
"...who steals the show without even breaking a dookie rope, yo. Still and all, watching the elastically contrived The..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Trekkies
"...quarter, kid. Go buy a reality gumdrop. This loving, give-'em-enough-rope documentary about the phenomenon of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek..."

May 21, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Terminal Velocity
"...it's a felony offense to give Sheen this much rope. Kinski (?!) is adequate as the KGB pariah, but..."

Sept. 23, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Falling Down
"...a nervous, perspiring citizen reaches the end of his rope and snaps like an overused rubber band, leaving his..."

March 5, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Police Story Iii: Supercop
"...absolutely breathtaking bit that has him hanging from the rope-ladder of a helicopter 100 stories in the air. No,..."

Jan. 22, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Damned in the USA
"...late. Through it all, Rev. Wildmon is given enough rope to hang himself thoroughly, and he does a good..."

Jan. 15, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Swoon
This classic of the New Queer Cinema is intrigues with its dreamy romanticism and eroticization of the infamous child murder committed by Leopold and Loeb in 1923.
"...of other films about this infamous pair (Compulsion, Hitchcock's Rope). Although this somewhat enigmatic approach to the subject matter..."

Dec. 18, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Station
"...of the party where we discover he's trying to rope together a business deal that requires Buy's participation. Rubini's..."

May 8, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

From Here to Eternity
The only punk rock band that mattered, and why they still do
"...for American ears. Instead, sophomore slump Give 'Em Enough Rope brought the band its first domestic exposure in l978...."

May 19, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

When the Bough Breaks
In 1993, the Hyde Park Baptist Child Development Center hired a teacher who proved to be a little 'rough' with the children. Now the church is being sued for ignoring alleged child abuse.
"...as a teacher and more specifically with failing to properly supervise Lowry in her care of Parker Curtis, asking..."

Nov. 17, 2006 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Touching the Void
Two glacier climbers face the worst and live to tell about it in this harrowingly intimate documentary report.
"...as Yates lowered Simpson down the mountain with their rope, slowly lowering themselves one 300-foot-length of rope at a..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Day Trips
The Devil's Rope Museum in McLean chronicles the closing of the Great American Plain with barbed wire.
"...The Devil's Rope Museum, in the Texas Panhandle town of McLean, tells..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Uncancel the Olympics With a DIY Decathlon
How one man became the world's greatest athlete* (of his backyard)
"...my landing pad, while two tiki torches and a rope acted as my bar. After watching one clip to..."

May 29, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
The origins of the iconic Amazon princess
"...a golden corona and holding a menacing coil of rope, the two could be one and the same and,..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gay Place
Sundays are the new Saturdays
"...Jake Wing Rope Intensive Embrace your knotty side with master rigger Jake..."

April 8, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

More Old Settler's Music Festival Preview
OSMF preview
"...can do is hope." – Kevin Curtin Shovels & Rope..."

April 11, 2014 Music Feature

Where the Girls Go/ATX: Heat Wave
It's Friday! And have no fear, Where The Girls Go is here
"...SUNDAY: Learn the ropes – literally. Q Toys hosts a rope suspension with..."

March 28, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

That Old Revival Spirit
Testifying About Movies
"...over the Russian landscape, the first of many visionary tropes in Tarkovsky's epic. Rublev was a real person, yet..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

Poutine
Toronto duo's visas call Austin home
"...two-man wrecking crew splits the difference between Shovels & Rope and those two other color-coded duos from the Midwest...."

Oct. 10, 2014 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

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