Word: allene
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...There won’t be as much variation [in grades], so it’ll be harder to pick out the best people,” said Robert W. Allen, the current president of the Law Review...
...Allen and Scorsese have their Oscars. Lee has never been nominated for Best Director. Granted, he's not quite in their league, though he loves zippy tracking shots as much as Scorsese, and the New York Knicks as much as Allen. But Lee is a producer of genius, and not just in his self-marketing - which, don't knock it, is a boon to someone who's essentially an independent auteur. He chooses provocative projects, gets big stars when he needs them, makes vigorous, good-looking films and does it on half a Hollywood budget...
...classic vignette from Annie Hall, Woody Allen recalls a farcical episode from his childhood where his mother drags him in to see a psychiatrist, convinced that her son is suffering from depression because he’s stopped doing his homework. A nebbishy but precocious nine year-old, his face dwarfed by the trademark horn-rimmed glasses, kid Woody is a charming avatar of his neurotic, anhedonic adult persona. “The universe is everything,” he says by means of justification. “And if it’s expanding, someday it will break apart?...
...that comes with maturity; we always outgrow our posturing adolescent angst. But part of me has begun to consider this a serious loss. In a way, I’m currently having an existential crisis over the lack of existential crisis in my life. Unlike the young Woody Allen, I do my homework—and polish my resume, agonize about graduate school, write trivial articles for The Crimson, all without thinking about the inexorable outward stretching of the universe (Annie Hall might not be up-to-date on the most recent developments in physics, but every theory...
...Sept. 23, the foundation minted 25 new Fellows, who were each awarded $500,000 grants doled out over five years, with no strings attached or reporting obligations. The recipients include stage lighting designer Jennifer Tipton, geriatrician Diane Meier and urban farmer Will Allen. This diversity is a hallmark of the program, which, according to the foundation's president, Jonathan Fanton, strives to bestow financial freedom - and the considerable prestige that accompanies the award - to creative individuals on the cusp of greatness. "These are people at the very edge of discovery, people who are redefining what's possible," says Fanton. "They...