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...serious cinema. He earned consecutive Academy Awards for best foreign film in 1961 (The Virgin Spring) and 1962 (Through a Glass Darkly), another in 1984 (Fanny and Alexander). Three times, he was Oscar-nominated for best director (Cries and Whispers, Face to Face, Fanny and Alexander); five times, as author of the best original screenplay (Wild Strawberries, Through a Glass Darkly, Cries and Whispers, Autumn Sonata and Fanny). The Academy also gave him the Irving G. Thalberg Award for career achievement - the only foreign-language filmmaker to receive it. In 1960 he received a still higher honor: he graced...
...hope these new genes may offer a clue. "This is by no means the final, whole answer, but we've gotten an incredible glimpse into the cause of the disease," says Dr. David Hafler, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital and an author of one of the papers, which appears in the New England Journal of Medicine. In the other reports, published in Nature Genetics, two independent research teams confirmed the role of one of the genes described by Hafler's group...
...things she does best: intricate plotting and character development. Friendships are tested, romances get thorny, storylines materialize only to disappear and reemerge triumphantly all the more gorgeous for having been hidden. In this book, the old tricks are burnished to a riveting luster against the high stakes for both author and hero...
What is most interesting about the ending is that that Rowling has had it written for years, and she has said that she’s felt very little temptation to deviate from her plan. That means that all the maturity we have seen both Harry and his author develop over the last ten years, in the end, means nothing. The series’ ending shows the same tendency to sum up and smooth over that nagged at the first few novels, a tendency that Rowling had overcome by book four...
Grossman cites the lord of the rings author J.R.R. Tolkien and The Chronicles of Narnia author C.S. Lewis as Christian writers who suffused their work with religion. He then complains that Harry Potter has no one to pray to because Rowling has deleted God. Grossman ignores the Christian themes of love and free will that Rowling makes explicitly clear are Harry's only means of salvation...