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...bees can explain many of the most difficult aspects of human existence?Somewhere between the endless chapters on the life of bees and the endless obsession with the scatological and the priapic is one of the most sinister and compelling men of the twentieth century. But he remains an enigma, both to the reader and to the author exploring him—an author who seems more interested in the allegorical constructs he creates to describe human behavior than the behavior they’re meant to illuminate.Unable to penetrate Hitler’s depths, Mailer pulls back, focusing instead...
...thing. Back when men directed women's pictures, they throbbed with energy, perhaps because female behavior was such an enigma to them, perhaps because actresses like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford were so headlong, so committed to the emotional extremes. You might not, in the end, believe them, but boy they were gripping to watch. Directors like Grant or Nancy Meyers (of The Holiday among other titles) want to keep their leading ladies unhysteric, as if descents into the irrational were somehow fuel for sexism. But the politely furrowed brow is fundamentally anti-dramatic. You want people in films like...
...belated Pacific homecoming. His subsequent play Paradise was set in a Fijian island resort in the weeks before the May 2000 coup attempt, and it was while in Suva on a writing residency in 2001 that Fraser began his screenplay for No. 2. "Fiji is still an enigma for me," he concedes. But "I figure I know what makes New Zealand tick these days, especially Mount Roskill." With its Pacific wave, New Zealand cinema is all the more refreshing...
...Leonardo Loved Freaks Art researchers are trying harder than ever to unravel the enigma of the Mona Lisa's beauty [Oct. 9]. But Leonardo da Vinci was just as interested in capturing the grotesque, as TIME reported in its Feb. 3, 2003, issue...
...years, but if anything, the scrutiny of the Mona Lisa is more intense than ever. After studying the painting with 3-D laser scanners, researchers posited last week that Leonardo da Vinci's subject was pregnant, lending scientific cred to an old theory. "People have said there is an enigma to the Mona Lisa," says historian Donald Sassoon, author of Becoming Mona Lisa. "That makes it popular because people like enigmas and secret codes." True enough. Here are some puzzles scientists and writers think they've solved in just the past year...