Word: afraid
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...brief essays, look up, shake your head, and think "What the hell is this guy talking about?" For that, you should be grateful. All too many books about film regurgitate the same old pablum about the same old movies over and over again. Thomson, however, isn't afraid to tear down critical darlings (he hates Stanley Kubrick), isn't afraid of spoilers (there's a strong argument to be made for film criticism that can only be read after having seen the movie, not before), and reveals a cinematic knowledge of frightening depth. This all makes for a bracing, infuriating...
...committee members think such selections contribute to mutual understanding, they are fools. If they do not, they are, I’m afraid, fiends...
...another in a small-town way, and they all talk and laugh and say outrageous things. Renee Martin, the salon's owner, told me she and her husband disagree so strongly, they can't even talk about the election anymore. And that was surprising because at first she was afraid of Obama. "What had me scared," she explained, "was the whole thing about, Was he a Muslim...
...Huang Chi-lin, a translator in Taipei, is certainly feeling the pain. "I'm very afraid for my savings and especially my daughter's future," Huang says. "I don't know if my money will keep its value. I invest, but now I don't know how to invest because everything is going down, so I keep watching and worrying about it." Other Asians are taking a philosophical view of the worsening crisis. Dorothy Wong, 49, a psychiatric counselor in Hong Kong, says that a global crash could change laissez-faire attitudes about money. "I think the world needed this...
...seem to care much about. He presents his work in a vacuum, for his patrons to contextualize how they will; the image itself is without textual footnote, be it to clarify or confuse its meaning. At the height of his fame, Simon Hantaï retreated from society, afraid that society wanted to wrest his work from him. Today, Ron English and artists like him seem to be using society itself as another instrument in their art. What ensues is nothing short of fascinating.—Columnist Ryan J. Meehan can be reached at rmeehan@fas.harvard.edu...