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...Adequate" sums up the Festival's offerings so far. No films yet have reaped unanimous critical acclaim. A few name directors are thought to have been coasting (Pedro Almodóvar's Volver) or tailspinning (Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation) with their latest works. Some directors of promise, like the Turk auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan with his Climates, have brought works earning mild applause. We see and we shrug...
...will no longer take a backseat to sales and marketing. A forthcoming Cadillac will be a model dreamed up by a design team and pitched to senior execs instead of the other way around. A 2007 Saturn sedan, the Aura, with an exterior designed in Germany, has already won acclaim for stylish looks...
...gang rape of Mukhtar Mai in 2002 after her brother was seen walking with a girl from a rival tribe. After Mai spoke out, the government gave her $8,300 in compensation, which she used to found a school to educate young women in Pakistan. She has gained international acclaim largely due to columns penned by New York Times op-ed writer Nicholas D. Kristof ’81, whose readers have sent Mai over $130,000 through this past November.Kristof, a former Crimson editor, has written that Mai is “a Rosa Parks for a new century...
...Wild, and Got a Life” and two books by Megan F. McCafferty, “Sloppy Firsts” and “Second Helpings.” Viswanathan, who received a two-book deal reportedly worth $500,000 at the age of 17, initially garnered high acclaim for “Opal,” including a movie deal and several glowing reviews (USA Today wrote, “you won’t read a sweeter, funnier, more charming book this year”). Viswanathan denies any conscious wrongdoing and claims that although she read, admired...
...composed after a long period of inactivity caused by his attempts to “cure” himself of his homosexuality, and one that reaffirmed his compositional mastery. Unlike many of Tchaikovsky’s other pieces, the “Fifth Symphony” was greeted with acclaim after its first performance. But the Boston Chamber Music Society’s program, which will be performed later in the evening, will stand in sharp relief from the powerful and sometimes bombastic Russian masters featured by the Philharmonic. The Chamber Music Society will play an arrangement of Mahler?...