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Industrial lights reflect intermittently off the windshield of a speeding automobile as “Blindness,” the new film by acclaimed Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, opens with stunning visuals. Meirelles, whose past credits include the equally arresting “City of God,” ingeniously captures the sensation of being infected by the white blindness that mysteriously afflicts the film’s urban population. Shot in natural, almost milky tones, “Blindness” enjoys a visually striking and promising start—but this promise is only ephemeral. As the film...
...women do make different choices when they decide on college majors and jobs - even highly educated women more often choose "female" occupations that pay less - but the authors also note that discrimination persists. As one example, they cite a 2000 study which found that when symphony orchestras switched to blind auditions - those in which the musicians play behind a screen - women had a significantly better chance of being hired...
...Government' coalition - popularly, and a bit derisively, known as the Goo Goos - had nominated George Alexander, a former city supervisor. "Honest Uncle George" campaigned dressed up as Uncle Sam on a moralistic reform platform that promised to rid the freewheeling city of gamblers, prostitutes, and even the bewilderingly popular blind pig races...
...Americans in not knowing how to stop it. While “The Second Plane” is a bracing and thought-provoking read, it is ultimately irritating in its unsubstantiated smugness. Being a cold-hearted bastard isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but against such blind hate, mere hate won’t solve anything.—Staff writer Jillian J. Goodman can be reached at jjgoodm@fas.harvard.edu...
...things that Gregg seems to get right. These flashbacks are the only scenes that meaningfully treat Victor’s need to fill his parental void. while Victor bounces between foster families, Houston, a criminal and pseudo-terrorist, steals him away in bouts of blind but selfish love between arrests.Brad William Henke plays Victor’s best friend Denny, a chronic self-gratifier. Henke is a relative unknown but he offers an earnest and emotionally present performance that seems to exist almost in spite of the film’s oppressive post-ironic atmosphere. On the other hand, Macdonald?...