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JOB DISCRIMINATION.(The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada)(Manderlay)(Movie Review)

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What happened to Tommy Lee Jones? I don't mean that he has vanished from our sight, although some of his recent performances have felt pale and perfunctory. ("Man of the House": that's one to wipe from the C.V. with a high-pressure hose.) I merely wish to know what it was in Jones's nature, or in his private history, that engraved the landscape of his face with such a calm despair--those rifts of resignation in his cheeks, the eyes that fear nothing yet seem within a blink of inexplicable tears. He spoke at the crowning of Al Gore, his former roommate at Harvard, as the Democratic Presidential nominee in 2000, but surely the disappointment of what followed has worn off by ...

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