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...Yorker film critic] David Denby called ‘Crash’ one of the best first films in the history of film, to which I say, ‘Get the fuck out of here!’” Haggis blurts out, breaking into laughter...
Following Kirby’s statement, questions period opened with remarks from Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82, who has been a vocal critic of Summers in recent months...
Jesus the Pharisee has significant omissions: it does not touch on such salient matters as the Resurrection, the messiahship of Jesus, or the belief that his death atoned for the sins of all humanity. Lawrence Schiffman, a critic of the book who is a professor of Hebrew and Judaic studies at New York University, says that Falk "has bought a stereotype of the School of Shammai, who in reality were good Jews and good Pharisees." Schiffman believes that there will not be a scholarly acceptance of the book's thesis. He maintains that anti-Judaism in early Christian writings...
DIED. Diego Giacometti, 82, Swiss furniture designer and sculptor; of a heart attack; in Paris. His early artistic life took its direction from his more famous sculptor brother Alberto, for whom he was collaborator, critic and model. In their 40 years together, Diego was responsible for the casting and patinating, or surface finishing, of Alberto's attenuated figures. After his older brother's death in 1966, Diego's creative talent emerged in a menagerie of whimsical animals and birds and in rustic yet beautifully proportioned furniture and lamps that built his reputation as a master in his own right...
DIED. John Canaday, 78, art critic and author whose gracefully expressed but frequently combative views appeared in the New York Times from 1959 to 1977; of pancreatic cancer; in New York City. He had catholic but conservative taste, and his several well-received books included the multivolume Metropolitan Seminars in Art (1958-60) and The Lives of the Painters...