Word: broodingness
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THERE IT STANDS, THE FAMILIAR colossus, atop most lists of all-time greatest movies. And aside from the breadth and wit of the thing, its brooding on the very American subjects of power and celebrity, there is a reason why Citizen Kane is often named the world's best film...
3 GALATEA 2.2 by Richard Powers (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The Galatea in this reworking of the myth is not a statue but an enormously complicated network of computer circuitry that, on a bet, is being taught to think. The Pygmalions--there are a couple of them--are an acerbic cyber...
I am thankful for living in a place where winter gets good and cold and you need to build a fire in a stove and wrap a blanket around you. Cold draws people closer together. Crime drops. Acts of kindness proliferate between strangers. I have been in Los Angeles on...
Maybe the time for these movies has passed. Maybe the classics are for an older generation, raised on big bands, Ed Sullivan and Frank Sinatra. Maybe the antics of Katherine Hepburn, Irene Dunne and Cary Grant in their screwball comedies (see "Bringing Up Baby" or "The Awful Truth" this Sunday...
Born in North Carolina, Coltrane began his career as a horn man in Philadelphia R.-and-B. bands in the 1940s. During much of the '50s, his life followed an all-too-familiar pattern-the broke and brooding jazz musician who turns to booze and drugs. Yet in 1957 he...