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...from today, “how far away that Paris, Sartre, and St. Denis!” In the story on the Charles, the two Borges are finally reconciled when the older recites a famous line by Victor Hugo. Popular culture remains memory’s best compass in the river of time—connecting each of us to our other selves. We need to understand popular expressions always, in order to judge where we’ll personally stand on the re-writes every generation makes. As Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset explained, all that really differentiates...
...maelstrom that ensues, Giamatti becomes a great compass for the viewer’s voyage. When he is on-screen, the picture becomes a bit more serious, a bit more honest, and a lot more believable. His half-minute elegy at the movie’s close could save any film...
...that's only half the problem. Since 2000, with the collapse of any Arab-Israeli peace process, the start of the war on terrorism and the U.S. invasion of Iraq, regional actors have lacked a clear compass, rules of the road or a referee. Syria is being told to clean up its act in Lebanon and Iraq; Iran to drop its nuclear program and to stop meddling in its neighbor's affairs; Hamas to undergo an ideological revolution; Hizballah to disarm. All are perfectly justifiable demands, but none are being accompanied by a clear and appealing incentive for the parties...
...instantly self-adjusting moral compass and understands issues very rapidly,” MacNeil added...
...crooning she hated. In country music, she saw the same mastery of conceit—the unification of dissimilar ideas in an extended metaphor—that attracted her to the English Renaissance poet John Donne. Just as Donne created an elaborate metaphor likening the two feet of a compass to distant lovers, a country music songwriter compared a love affair to a trial and execution. She would later become the only black woman to write a number one country song, and she would be nominated for a Grammy Award. She examined lynching in “The Ballad...