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...also lassoed bigger stars, when he wanted them; he knew that marquee names would help raise financing and lure audiences. He would go for the hot new actor: Delon after Rocco and His Brothers, Richard Harris after This Sporting Life, David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave in their first bloom for Blowup and later, in 1975, Jack Nicholson for The Passenger...
...calamitous cause and effect: hundreds of millions of tons of agricultural waste, mostly fertilizer, run off the fields and feedlots of the American heartland into the many tributaries of the Mississippi River. The nutrients end up in the Gulf of Mexico, where they trigger a massive algae bloom, which in turn depletes nearly all the oxygen in the water. The result is a massive die-off of marine life, notably shrimp and shellfish. This summer's dead zone is projected to be the biggest ever. [This article contains a map. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] [This article contains a chart...
Even as the country was devouring the “Harry Potter” novels, critics like Safire and Harold Bloom, the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale, were trying to get people to spit them out. Safire admits in his essay that he enjoys “Harry Potter,” just as he enjoys “short films, featuring anthropomorphic porcine cartoon characters.” Bloom ends his critique with the backhanded “hope that my discontent is not merely a highbrow snobbery, or a nostalgia for a more literate fantasy to beguile...
...about, ‘Is ‘Harry Potter’ great literature? What are the themes involved with this?’ I just have to shake my head,” Barron said. “It’s a great, entertaining book. What Harold Bloom says about it, what literary merit it has or doesn’t have doesn’t really matter...
Regardless of what Bloom and Safire might think about it, “Harry Potter” is a phenomenon. In the ten years since “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone debuted” to such widespread acclaim in the UK, the books have been translated into 67 languages, broken printing and sales records with each successive installment, and inspired everything from academic theories to tabloid scandals. Even Harvard Square will join in celebrating the culmination of the series by transforming itself into “Hogwarts Square” through midnight tonight...