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...didn't hear a single thing about his reaction to it until about five years later. He said, "Well, he got most of it right, except when he tried to be nice." He was right. I shouldn't have pulled my punches. You should never do that, not if you're writing nonfiction...
...Doing go-for-broke art and not caring what comes of it." That's not just a critical testament, it's autobiography; Manny was that craftsman. Contributing to left-wing weeklies and film magazines - except for a few months at Time - he had all the anonymity he needed, at least relative to front-line reviewers on the newspapers and newsweeklies. Manny's pieces had no impact on a film's box office take; I don't recall ever seeing his name on a movie ad or a DVD box. Eh, so what? His reviews gave the impression that, although...
...think it is absolutely meaningless," John S. Sheffield '09, a social studies concentrator in Pforzheimer House, said of the rankings in a phone interview. "Unless these indicators really mean something to students, these rankings don't really mean anything except hype...
...Moscow, the President's "summer palace" in Peking. The Congress and the press are snugly in the Commander in Chief's pocket. We might be, not in the year 2000, but in autumn 2002, when official opposition to the impending Iraq invasion was mostly cowed into silence. Except that in the movie there is an insurgency, led by one Thomasina Paine, and it means to terminate the daredevil drivers, who are seen as the President's gladiators, their race a circus to anaesthetize the public...
...countries. Meanwhile, Kashmiri aspirations for greater autonomy have also remained largely unrealized. That has been particularly galling because Kashmir acceded to India in the 1947 partition of British India into Pakistan and India based on carefully negotiated terms giving the region the right to self-governance on all issues except foreign relations, communication and defense...