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The WP reports that after a long fallow period, the CIA is recruiting again.
When an identity is contrived or reconstructed in exile after a long fallow period of nonidentification--as in the potato-famine campaign--it's bound to be more radical than the real thing, like the religious convert who becomes more zealous than those born into a religion.
The movie "reeks of film-student overkill" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). It would only be allowed to "ooz[e] out of Miramax's storeroom" in the otherwise fallow month of January, says the Village Voice 's Amy Taubin: "[I]ts devices are too shopworn to allow for a personal or original point of view."
Beautifully acted but formulaic films like Walk on the Moon suggest we could use a fallow period, a year or two to regroup and think up fresh stories about attraction and trust.
In February in the entertainment business, the land lies fallow.