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...from simple narratives about how the Plan’s programs could improve daily life, to more broadly pedantic lectures on the nascent, but nevertheless looming threat of totalitarianism from the East.“They’re entertaining and witty, and they offer really interesting examples of effective public communication,” Schulberg says. “Examples that can both inspire and educate their audiences at the same time.” Schulberg first became interested in these films when she learned that her father, the late NBC producer Stuart Schulberg, had worked with the European...
...worst kind of overkill. Take this stanza from “Underground Beauty”: “Inside, tiny sparkling / mineral, gypsum flowers, / lettuce and coral, shy trident / bats, fairy shrimp- / eggs which hatch after fifteen years.” Poets have used lists to great effect before. But unlike Gerard Manley Hopkins in “Pied Beauty,” a poem similarly concerned with nature and spirituality, Nilsson merely lists. The words above have no particular rhythmic quality; the enjambments do not aid the poem’s flow. This list style, prevalent throughout the collection...
...carefully assess the situation, that is, the most likely outcomes,” Farrell said. “You have to do the science correctly. I think one of the problems right now is that science can’t really answer the question of what will be the effect.” But Farrell was not cautious in condemning the Bush administration for its relationship with science, saying that “the previous administration just ignored or put off science” because of an agenda that was economically and morally motivated. The Clinton administration did very little...
...woman who is layered, and can react to her environment without fundamentally changing herself, is somehow abnormal or unacceptable. Hip-hop, perhaps even more than other styles of music, is certainly not immune to this particular kind of slander.Ms. Knowles a leader in a musical genre that either by effect or cause has traded many of its original political and social intentions for success and acceptance. How many mainstream hip-hop acts, let alone female hip-hop acts, have emerged over the last decade that have remained committed to bringing about positive social change? It’s a strange...
...They Are a-Changin’” brilliantly caps a montage explaining the alternate world in which the Watchmen reside. This is almost enough to forgive Leonard Cohen’s painful original performance of “Hallelujah,” which plays to laughably awful effect as the Nite Owl rediscovers his libido.“Watchmen” has flaws, but Snyder has proven that translating it to the screen could be done, and done well. The old caution, however, that the book should be read first, applies here more than ever. To fall asleep...