Word: distinguishedness
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Then there are those films that promise it all - a top director, a tony cast, a distinguished source novel, a provocative theme - and instantly pratfall. One of these is the festival's opening night selection, Blindness, from the Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener).
Although they could appear at first to be indecipherable, on a closer look the combines turn out to be a balance?a combination, let's say?of sense and nonsense. Take that goat, for instance, the one that appears in one of his most famous works, Monogram. The distinguished beast...
I would say marketable skills, but this is Harvard, where everyone’s roommate is secretly a world-class violinist. Besides, celebrity entails something else besides excellence. Professor Steven Pinker may be eminent in his field, but he would be just another distinguished professor without his distinctive hairstyle.
The truth is so alien to the distinguished MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, said Harvard law professor Alan M. Dershowitz, that Chomsky just might be a resident of his own planet—“Planet Chomsky.” Dershowitz railed against Chomsky’s claims about the...
Although she is probably one of the most well-versed scholars of film studies at Harvard, Rachel E. Whitaker ’08 started off her college career on the crew team. This fact might seem odd for a woman of considerable power within the arts scene at Harvard. As...