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...none of these things would have served Mr. Stockman one whit better than the Trojan horse image, which, in spite of its essential flaw, still combines deception with dignity. So does Mr. Stockman. Chagrined now, he turns his figure of speech against himself, contending that it is he who has assumed the role of the "wooden beast without a brain." But the image is inappropriate again. Mr. Stockman is far from brainless, and hardly a beast. He has simply risked his kingdom for a metaphor...
King said the new law "corrects a public policy flaw that was at the heart of institutions of higher learning," adding that each board will be increased from eight members to nine to allow for the new student-elected trustees...
...guilty" verdict, Keyes, unfortunately, downplays larger issues. Chief among these are the extent to which psychiatric problems should be allowed to change verdicts and the timeless dilemma of how to prevent judges and politicians from ignoring individual rights for their own aggrandizement or ambition. This is his principal flaw in an otherwise excellently researched and explained study. Keyes focuses heavily on Milligan's psychological composition and how it developed into a condition that spurred three rapes; his is as thoughtful an anatomy of a criminal as one could hope to find...
Perhaps this lapse into cinematic superficiality is a problem inherent in the nature of the short, low-budget film. In Dozens this is merely a minor flaw far outweighed by superb directorial sensibility and the outstanding performance of the actors. The camera rarely strays from Margolies, who plays a sensitive mother as well as the crude, masculine game of dozens. Her experience as a stage actress, primarily at the Stage One Company, lies beneath her effortless virtuosity. Her Sally is highly feminine, but not stylized--a pig-tailed, funky adult who speaks low and jivey. Mason is a naturally-grinning...
...text has some virtues, some manically funny apergus, such as the glimpse of reverent Yalies hand-washing the baby's diapers to pay for the pair of Mies Barcelona chairs, those comfortless icons of secular progress. But its flaw, apart from Wolfe's shaky grasp of architectural history, is that he looks with his ears. Architects tend to write manifestos when they are not being asked to build. Given the choice between what architects wrote about architecture, and what they actually built, Wolfe believes the words every time. This leads him into some strange fluffs, like his mistaken...