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In a recent essay in L'espresso, an Italian news magazine, Eco finds this unusual emotion dating to a Pagan conception of honor, in the city-states of Greece, taking one's life was a heroic response to a fall from grace. Suicide represented a recognition of grave wrongdoing, and...
Sometimes critics are human -- or a reasonable facsimile thereof. They like a good cry at the movies. They can get all sniffly and teary, just like real people, when somebody falls in love or dies. The candy shell of their heart can melt into chocolate when a kid hugs a...
Yet despite being branded an international outlaw and threatened with an economic backlash, Norway insists that the whaling will go on. Its resolve is strengthened by the confidence that other countries may follow: Iceland, which quit the IWC last year over the same issue, says it will resume whaling next...
In several pieces in this book, her corrosive humor is quick to point out the hollowness of most mass culture while remaining faithful to its occasional ability to spark or capture real emotion. If she's good at ridiculing fans--soap opera watchers, record buyers, people who believe in movies...
Lloyd Webber's goal in recent years has been to bridge the gap between the musical and the opera, reclaiming the latter as a popular rather than elite form. An operatic reading does no disservice to Billy Wilder's film noir, which has been preserved more than adapted. The climax...