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He's a very good character, one we've not previously encountered at the movies, and Clooney plays him with a wonderfully calm subtlety. The man never sweats or, for that matter, raises his voice when the pressure is on him, which it almost always is. At most, he registers...
The film is more patient than thrilling in developing its multi-layered plot, and, frankly, there are elements in it - notably something to do with a kid's book that Michael's son induces Arthur Edens to read - that seemed to me rather murky. Or incompletely developed. But there's...
M.G. Vassanji's The Assassin's Song is a more complex but ultimately less satisfying examination of similar turf. The central character, Karsan, is destined to be the latest in a centuries-long familial line to inherit the Shrine of the Wanderer, an important place of Sufi worship in India...
Clayton D. Miller ’10 doesn’t look like someone who would casually refer to himself in conversation as a Level 68 Dwarf Priest. Disarmingly polite, with a large buckled belt and a baseball cap that proudly reads “The Virginian,�...
This was a character-building experience of a certain sort. It built vast reserves of sarcasm and irony-tools of the journalistic trade, I later learned-which came in very handy when the New York Mets brought National League baseball back to the city in 1962. Those first Mets were...