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...very best and most highly respected appellate lawyers in the nation, with a deserved reputation as a brilliant writer and oral advocate,” the letter said. “He is also a wonderful professional colleague both because of his enormous skills and because of his unquestioned integrity and fair-mindedness...
...Fish,” we are treated to an unreal world where we want to believe. The stark grays of reality—and the gloom of abject poverty—are complemented by the rainbow colors of candy in the Wonka factory and the brilliant blues in the spick-and-span toothpaste plant where Charlie’s father worked...
...futurist Philip Marlowe, Deckard (Harrison Ford) is assigned to round up some replicants--superrobots who can feel as well as think--in Ridley Scott's brilliant 1982 visualization of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Set in 2019, the film doesn't allow Deckard the brains or heroism of the traditional detective, but it does let him fall in love with a beautiful female robot (Sean Young). Neo-Nick, meet android Nora. --By Richard Corliss
...however brilliant and entertaining Eco’s theoretical texts may be, one wonders why he didn’t just take a cue from Harold Bloom and hand us an annotated summer reading list. After all, a novel that cites Melville, Proust, Kafka, Rilke, Eliot, and others in its opening pages alone can hardly help but make us think, a little wistfully, of how else we might have spent our time...