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...Midnight is one of those rare films that cries out for a voice-over, but Eastwood and his writers seem to have consciously avoided that course of action. Instead, they give us John Kelso (Cusack), an idealistic young writer from New York who comes to Savannah to write an essay on a Christmas party and ends up getting involved in Williams' murder trial. By embroiling Kelso in the plot, the refreshing detachment of Berendt's narrative is lost. The story shifts from the town and people of Savannah to the fictional Kelso--his life, his ideals and, I'm sorry...
...written on their papers, agree that comments on papers are useful and are often a good way to get to know professors. "The teacher's personality shines through in the comments," Shrier says. "For example, [Dorot] Professor [of the Archeology of Israel] Lawrence Stager writes large, rambling, loving mini-essays at the end of each student essay because he's a large, rambling, loving kind...
...were so pleased to see Garrison Keillor's fabulous piece on Murray's restaurant in Minneapolis, Minn. [ESSAY, Oct. 13], which referred to our magic and elegance. Unfortunately, the blurb on Time's index page indicated that Keillor was writing about a "landmark restaurant closing." Though we are a landmark restaurant, we certainly are not closing, nor did Keillor's Essay say so. Please let your readers know we are open and intend to stay in business for at least another 50 years. Come visit us! LINDA LINDQUIST, Marketing Manager Murray's Minneapolis, Minn...
...more comprehensible than in person. Although the Oxford philosopher was casual about his writings--he never attempted a major book--his lectures and scholarly papers, including Russian Thinkers and Against the Current, established Berlin's reputation as a formidably learned defender of liberal values. His most famous and influential essay, The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953), divided humankind into those who have one big idea and those who have many smaller ones. Berlin's hedgehogs included Plato and Dante; among the foxes he named Aristotle and Shakespeare. Although too modest to make such a claim for himself, Sir Isaiah...
Unlike Arik Sharon, Blood Money is a real documentary. It resembles nothing so much as the document-based question on the Advanced Placement history exams, in which students are given an assortment of primary sources and are told to weave them together in an essay. An especially clever student may form an essay of surprising depth and insight from the varied information given...