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Furthermore, Haggis had no interest in making any grand, sweeping declarations with the film. He says, “I just wanted to make a good movie. It’s about the fact that each human being embodies these contradictions that we just can’t explain sometimes. That’s what makes us wonderful, that’s what makes us all unique—the capacity to change...
Schur’s concerns over comedy’s recent travails may partially explain his attraction to “The Office”: the show is part of a new breed of television comedy, an innovative format informed by the same reality genre that is ostensibly usurping its place. It shies away from the usual tropes afflicting sitcoms: ethnic mismatches, didactic moralizing, happy endings. The format falls in the same category as Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and Fox’s “Arrested Development...
...book tour, which took him to a sold-out Brattle Theatre last Wednesday for a reading and a Q&A sponsored by Harvard Bookstore. Answering questions from wide-eyed teenagers and aspiring writers, Foer spoke softly and calmly from his podium, giving humble advice and doing his best to explain his method in specific terms. Most of the time, he was unable to pin it down, emitting vague but well-intentioned platitudes about “hard work” and “creating empathy.” He has trouble talking about his own life, he says...
...differences in attitude and behavior. Even the larger size and greater musculature of males, an obvious factor in discussing male domination of women, is dismissed. Size cannot be important, she reasons, since young males do not usually beat up their smaller fathers. By discounting all other factors that might explain why males think and act similarly around the world, French is left with the patriarchal theory. This long-running conspiracy, insists Beyond Power, is responsible for the abuse of the environment, the invention of the state and the idea of heaven. Transcendence is the name of the male game: under...
...even he can only unravel, he cannot explain. Before the war, reports the author, Haile Selassie had set about turning his country into a modern nation, hoping to learn, as Japan had quickly done, from Europe and America. Restored to his throne, however, he did less to open his country to the future than to close it within the past, preserving outworn traditions, and his own tenure, long after their usefulness had passed...