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...Forest of Bliss, a portrait of the holy Hindu city of Benares, India, is the brainchild of Harvard film professor Robert Gardner, considered by many to be the most important anthropological filmmakers of our time. The documentary has no subtitles, no musical soundtrack, no voice-over commentary--only the insistent din of a city at work, a city whose main function concerns the burial of the dead...
What is to be done? Refusing to eat Whoppers or to skip that headache-filled stroll through Downtown Crossing simply translates into moral purism. Such acts might also lead the quasi-veggie to join a commune tucked away in a Vermont forest or isolated on a northern California sea-cliff. But a seclusion without frozen Swanson's brownies or the pulpy grease of Quarter Pounders also loses out on the potentially progressive parts of an often despicable society...
...mouth a light goes on. "I was big when I was little," he likes to say, 13 1/2 lbs. at his birth nearly 23 years ago in Aiken, S.C. He grew to almost 400 lbs., or "350 and rising," according to Clemson University's limited scales. Against Wake Forest once, Perry blocked a punt by punting a blocker. That is, the little fellow who was supposed to obstruct him bounced in the air so high that he knocked down the ball...
John Stillman said his brother was never interested in Black Rock, and didn't appreciate how much his father valued the New York forest. He said Calvin Stillman spent more time in Petersham, and is naturally more interested in maintaining that operation...
...oppose the sale. And even John Stillman is confident that Harvard's intention to leave the $400,000 indicates that Harvard could be persuaded to leave more. Still, given the vast difference of opinion, it appears impossible that both sides will walk away happy from the Black Rock Forest battle...