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...make a man of himself, and he figures he'll do it by fighting for a good cause. Almost as soon as he joins the guerrillas, he realizes he has made a mistake: he has fallen in among murderers and terrorists. In the chapters that follow, Naipaul sketches brilliant psychological portraits of the guerrillas?you understand that one man has joined the movement out of sexual rage, another because he can find no other job, and a third simply because he is bored?and you begin to feel sorry for them. Willie falls into the same trap as the reader...
...Argentine tango is performed in all its glory by world famous dancers Gloria and Eduardo Arquimbau. The couple has been performing for 50 years, beginning with Francisco Canaro’s Orchestra in the 1950’s, yet they never cease to amaze with the brilliant seduction of the tango. The show is co-presented by the Tango Society of Boston. Tickets $20 members, students and seniors, $24 general admission. 7:30 p.m., Museum of Fine Arts...
Still, despite the recent fumbles, no one dismisses Lansing's innate savvy. "She understands stories early on in their idea phase, and she's brilliant when it comes to breaking down scripts and casting," says Lorne Michaels, the Saturday Night Live impresario who produced Mean Girls and more than half a dozen other films under Lansing's watch. Her 2005 slate is highly diverse, ranging from a music film with gangsta rapper 50 Cent to a new version of War of the Worlds starring Tom Cruise and directed by Steven Spielberg...
...teasing out the latent contradictions in them. Although his writings are notoriously elusive, their influence on literary criticism, and the culture at large, was immeasurable. DIED. GORDON COOPER, 77, one of NASA's original seven astronauts; in Ventura, California. Famously casual in his approach to pilot training - and famously brilliant at it nonetheless - Cooper flew twice into orbit, as the sole pilot of the last Mercury mission in 1963 and as commander of Gemini 5 in 1965. For a time, Cooper held the world record for time logged in space, 222 hours. In the lunar program, NASA preferred more...
Still, Williams reminds us briefly of what a brilliant artist he can be with the probing words and beat of “Black Stacey,” one of many melodic tracks on the album. And in “Telegram,” Williams puts forth a cunning observation: “Hip-hop is lying on the side of the road, half-dead to itself, blood scrawled over its mangled flesh, like jazz.” It’s all the more surprising, then, that Williams has chosen to align himself with such a dead genre...