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Most of today's leading composers lament the current state of opera. Most opera managers return the favor, justly abhorring the quality of the operas usually produced by today's leading composers. As a way out of this impasse, Pierre Boulez, the aging enfant terrible of French music, once suggested blowing up all the old opera houses and starting anew. Britten's Owen Wingrave at least suggests that less draconian musical measures are possible...
...Armies of the Night, his Pulitzer-prizewinning journal of the 1967 antiwar march on the Pentagon, Norman Mailer lists his self-citations: "warrior, presumptive general, ex-political candidate, embattled aging enfant terrible of the literary world, wise father of six children, radical intellectual, existential philosopher, hard-working author, champion of obscenity, husband of four battling sweet wives, amiable bar drinker, and much exaggerated street fighter, party giver, hostess insulter." Not bad, but incomplete. Add frustrated novelist, passionate movie dabbler, sexual scientist, terror of the TV talk shows, critic of the global village and, to the ladies of Women...
...only side, of course. When Trudeau first ran for Prime Minister three years ago, he was regarded by many Canadians as something of an enfant terrible; brash, controversial, a dilettantish leftist who had even visited Communist China. But gradually, he oozed his way to the core of the political establishment, promising the nation that he would deal with Quebec's blossoming separatist movement in a way that would unify Canada, not rend it apart...
...animal-that-writes, as we have been seeing the boy as a being-that-blinks-and-gapes. It is exactly this ability of Truffaut's script to reveal the several dimensions of every human action, to suggest several ways to look at every situation, that makes L'Enfant Sauvage the masterpiece it certainly...
Narrative, but through its reflexiveness, it suggests the most intricate ideas about human learning and behavior. If it didn't, its sentimental and naturalistic achievements would be for nothing. L'Enfant Sauvage is a film about education, about how people learn from each other how to act ("act" in every sense), and because every action Truffaut shows involves education, the film shows that in every relationship between people there is teaching and learning. And in every emotional bond there is simultaneously acquiescence and resistance, and oppression and improvement, and Truffaut refuses to make judgments one way or the other. Instead...