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Peter Singer’s public appearances are frequently greeted by protesters, but the Princeton philosopher whom the Wall Street Journal once branded “Professor Death?? elicited a warm response from a crowd of 80 at the First Parish Church in Cambridge last night...
...demise were being greatly exaggerated, or at least greatly rushed. On Feb. 2, right after Iowa, Time wrote, “Howard Dean found himself clawing his way back from his near-death experience”—despite the fact that his brush with “death?? had consisted of picking up a respectable number of delegates before the polls opened in 49 out of 50 states. Once set in motion, nothing could derail the media’s plotline, which left the doctor no room for resuscitation...
Death is precisely what this film is about—what death takes from us, what it leaves behind. The film’s title refers to the amount of body mass a person is said to lose at the exact moment of death??the weight of the soul, some might say. The film’s narrative tiptoe dance through the past, present and future challenges this saying by reminding us repeatedly of just how much the characters once had, and asking us to decide how much they’ve lost through the death of others...
...unmentionable grief. Many of Watts’s best moments would’ve neared over-the-top drama in the hands of many other actresses, yet the camera’s unforgiving close-ups of her convincingly pain-distorted features aid in conveying a woman tinged by death??s aftermath...
This argument is understandable. No matter how odious Duranty’s morals and reprehensible his treatment of the famine—while denying it in print, he privately told British diplomats in September 1933 that as many as 10 million people had starved to death??the fate of his 1932 prize should ultimately rest upon the strength of the writing for which...