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...Message: The silver-haired CNN anchor told Yale students to "follow your bliss," but his droll Class Day address (a day before the official commencement, hence the hat) also poked fun at his mother Gloria Vanderbilt, fellow Yalie President Bush and the zeal with which the Ivy hits up ex-students for money...
...20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say.” (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading—we are, after all, getting $5 a head for you dolls and therefore pile up as many of you a piece as we can get—this is what too many of you seem to forget. “Coleridge...
...Line and David Strathairn as Edward R. Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck), but Hoffman dominates his film with an eerie force of personality as surely as Truman Capote commandeered Kansas when he was there researching his seminal book. Hoffman begins by impersonating the writer--nailing his droll, spectacular effeminacy--then infiltrates and inhabits...
...20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say.” (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading—we are, after all, getting $5 a head for you dolls and therefore pile up as many of you a piece as we can get—this is what too many of you seem to forget. “Coleridge...
...Sixty hours of footage were distilled into the 90 minutes of Black Harvest, and Connolly's reflective, droll prose further illuminates an extraordinary year. Characters from the documentary - like gentle clan leader Popina Mai, whose hopes would be broken before the year was out - come more fully to life in Connolly's lively retelling, as do the Highlands, steeped in old ways and oratory, yet riven by fighting. The book also does much to answer the question that teased the film's audience: How did two white foreigners, along with their two-year-old daughter, manage among people...