Word: daringness
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In its early--and best--passages, writer- director Liev Schreiber's film, adapted from Jonathan Safran Foer's novel, is more comically daring than such a tale has any right to be. Jonathan--always dressed in a dark suit and tie, peering at the world through thick glasses and expecting...
Her nephew Donald Reisfield says he asked Garbo, just before she died in 1990, if she had ever been happy. Her answer: "Yes." That direct yet enigmatic reply summarizes the Garbo style: the bold statement of her beauty, the daring in her sublime craft, the mystery at the heart of...
The College Dropout was 76 minutes of someone cramming every thought he'd ever had about himself into rhyme. It was immaculately produced, but what made it compelling was the contradictions. The song Jesus Walks mixed spirituality with skepticism and rap with gospel. All Falls Down slammed the "single black...
It's clear to see in Gore's business ventures some of the same instincts that, for better or worse, shaped his political career: an ability to discern the future, an appetite for complexity, a faith in the egalitarian forces of technology--and an impulse to take a big risk...
For years Mark Matsov, 61, has been a dedicated guardian of an endangered treasure. Crammed into 113 sq m of a decrepit six-bedroom apartment in downtown Tallinn, capital of Estonia, are some 50,000 mostly handwritten pages of music and manuscripts, and 1,500 hours of unique audio and...