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...might turn off fans. It probably didn't help that he was quoted in the November GQ as saying he felt Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Jack Nicholson have lost the passion for good roles. Coppola told reporters in Rome that the comments were taken out of context, saying, "I was astonished because it wasn't true, and I have nothing but respect and admiration" for the actors. "These are the three greatest actors in the world today, and they are my friends." In whatever context the original comments were made - and Coppola declined to clarify them for TIME...
...Sacks writes, "but they could recognize the brain of a professional musician without a moment's hesitation." Yet he worries that by reducing music to a set of neurological functions, "the simple art of observation may be lost ... clinical description may become perfunctory and the richness of the human context ignored...
...matched to their interests. Building on the success of the sophomore advising program however, the first-year advising system can easily be retooled to take advantage of the House-based system’s benefits. A major advantage of the sophomore advising system is that it exists within the context of the Houses. Resident tutors, each with their own academic interests, eat and live among students and are constantly available to them for advice, be it on a formal or casual basis. Even if a sophomore is assigned to a tutor who is a biology graduate student...
Sullivan’s views on other issues are similarly informed: when asked about affordable housing, for example, he frames the issue in the context of making sure longtime residents are not priced out of the city. And even when he emphasizes the need for youth sports and activities, he seems to be guided by a desire to see Cambridge remade as the city of his childhood...
...your touch” and “Gray,” Valentine begins in what appears to be the middle of a larger monologue, sparking the reader’s imagination and forcing her to actively engage with the poem and consider the context out of which it grows. This fragmentation combines with Valentine’s use of internal monologue to lend the collection a dream-like tone. In these fragmented dreams, the disturbing becomes beautiful. In “The Artist in Prison,” Valentine delicately describes a prisoner with a life sentence, trading simple...