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...want to write for the rest of my life,” he says.Whether collaborating creatively with the disenfranchised or teaching creative writing in universities, Armitage treats his role as a poet as a fundamentally social one. This is partly through necessity—“You can??t make a living as a poet just by writing poems,” he says—but also, it seems, because he has a passion for engaging individuals as well as audiences. Referring to his teaching job, he acknowledges the limitations of education in the creative arts...
...depraved progeny, “The Year of the Flood” is too colorful and too absurd to carry weight as a warning. The soft cries of distress “We’re using up the earth. It’s almost gone,” can??t stand up to Atwood’s showy vocabulary. Without a strong foundation of action and emotion, the novel comes across as more of a literary burlesque than a dystopian drama. There’s no real meat to Atwood’s novel and even...
...children. Nesbitt’s performance is extremely effective; his tics, shakes, and darting eyes build on one another until he seems to be held together by nothing save his trembling cigarette. He evokes ample sympathy throughout the film, but when his plans to kill Little are revealed, one can??t help but feel pity and a measure of disgust for his delusion that it would change anything. Liam Neeson’s sympathetic and tortured portrayal of Alistair Little marks a departure from his normal role as powerful, authoritative, decision-maker. His regret is palpable...
...point is, it triggers a consideration of these topics. “Artists always have their own point of view and angles,” says the Consul General of Israel to New England, Nadav Tamir, who co-sponsored the screening at the HFA. “You can??t ask them to speak for a national narrative. It’s always their story. And they play an important role in society in raising questions.” Using art to foster debate has been an approach that some Harvard departments have employed in service of veritas...
...remember Ted Kennedy when he was Ogletree’s age,” Dershowitz said. “And I can??t imagine anyone more similar to Kennedy in his commitment to the public interest...