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...played for laughs at the movie’s onset (he fastens Lucy’s diaper with large pin-on buttons), but it soon becomes evident that Sam’s mental incapacity threatens Lucy’s development. Social Services intervene and put Lucy into foster care on Lucy’s seventh birthday...
Although it is largely predictable, I Am Sam does enjoy some refreshing breaks from formula. For a change, the foster mother (Laura Dern) and the state attorney in Dawson’s custody battle are not antagonistic, but rather want what is best for Lucy. Dern delivers a fine performance, as does Pfeiffer...
...tenure system, of course, was created in order to foster academic freedom—in order to allow professors to publish (as West has done in the past) bold and original scholarship without worrying whether it will be immediately accepted. The system was not created so that professors with tenure would have free license to effectively switch careers and produce things other than scholarship, be they music, drawings or lawn-chairs. West’s job—the one that Harvard hired him for and pays him a large salary to perform—is to write scholarly books...
...want to take away Bush's fatigues and drag him back to last year, to the days when his presidency lacked a clear purpose. The President wants to go in the opposite direction, wrapping the entire country--Democrats included--in a warm, unifying embrace, complete with new proposals to foster volunteerism and charity. Safe inside that hug of unity, he dares the Democrats to break the mood that faced down terrorism. A senior official predicted to TIME that voters who care about Enron and its White House ties will lose interest after the next big bombing raid. If Bush...
Painting and sculpture from the 19th century and the first half of the 20th embody the taste of the local bourgeoisie: allegories to foster self-improvement, biblical scenes to inspire the faithful, nudity domesticated by classical settings, society ladies frozen for posterity in tight waists and inflated hairstyles. In contrast, a fashion exhibit features more relaxed garments from the '20s to current couture. The original collection has also been boosted by loans from the likes of the Musée d'Orsay, adding works by Tamara de Lempicka, who painted celebrities of the '30s in their designer glad rags...