Word: fatherness
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...small. No question that Portman's and Johansson's faces merit microscopic attention, but the film has a cramped feeling that turns every urgent, conspiratorial confidence into an italicized shout. That's a shame, because the movie has some excellent supporting skullduggery by Mark Rylance as the Boleyn girls' father, as well as a truly imperious turn by Kristin Scott Thomas as their mother. (She also played Johansson's mother in The Horse Whisperer...
When Liu Yuan started playing the sax, jazz was still seen as bourgeois and chord charts were hard to come by. Raised by folk-musician parents, he performed with Cui Jian, the father of Chinese rock, before dedicating himself--under the influences of John Coltrane and Miles Davis--to jazz. Now Liu's East Shore is the most promising venue in Beijing's budding jazz scene. Located on the banks of Lake Houhai, East Shore is a refuge from the trinket sellers and gaudy bars along the crowded shore. Its large windows give clear views over the water, and leather...
...remains behind on their primitive home world. (Which is, incidentally, not a regular planet but a Shellworld, a synthetic planet constructed as a set of concentric spheres. At its center dwells a massive, near omnipotent alien deity. No one knows why; it just moved in one day.) When their father is murdered, the siblings must bring about justice and also come to terms with what Djan Seriy has become...
...author’s ploy, Nathanial is not similarly replaying his life in his head. After both the reader and Nathanial regain their composure, it is possible to appreciate Baxter’s last chapter, which describes Nathanial’s current life as a husband and a father. Though Baxter answers some of the most sensitive questions about how Nathanial has coped with the latest shock to his psyche and offers the reader a sense of peace, he does not resolve all the conflicts. Baxter is careful to leave many questions unanswered and many avenues still open for exploration...
...school, Sara L. Wright ’09 brings John Patrick Shanley’s provocative play about priesthood and pedophilia to the Loeb Ex this weekend. “Doubt,” which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2005, tells the story of an abusive priest named Father Flynn, who is accused by Sister Aloysius of sexually abusing a student. Wright cites the play’s relevance and powerful thematic content as the primary reasons behind her decision to direct it this semester. “Even though this play is about the Catholic priest scandal...