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...that Soderbergh is counting on style to distract us from the familiarity, not to say banality, of the narrative that Paul Attanasio has winnowed out of novelist Joseph Kanon's rather good thriller. What we have here are two standard noir characters. There's the hard-shelled antihero, Jake Geismer (George Clooney), returning to Berlin, where he was a foreign correspondent before the war. His ostensible business is to cover the Potsdam conference. His real interest is in seeing whether the great love of his life, Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchett), has survived and might possibly still love him. It takes...
...Alan S. Geismer, who graduated from HLS in 1975, says that because many people came to HLS right out of college, they were still in full competitive mode...
...They want you to come into the lawfirms socialized into the profession," Geismer says. "They wanted you to see the world through lawyers eyes...
...fucking as vital confrontations. Styron wrote of how sweet and good it had been before the bloom faded, preaching that the bloom would always-surely, definitely-fade. "In all of Styron's work there is the unwillingness to censure aspiring, troubled, and weak humanity," the critic Maxwell Geismer wrote, and then went on to declare that "Mailer has no confidence in human nature...
...recipients of the Knox Fellowships are: John W. Curtis, of Lowell and Ft. Meade. Md. (History and Literature); Logan D. Delany, of Eliot and New York City (Economics): Richard A. Frank, of Quincy and Flushing. N. Y. (Biochemical Sciences): Alan Geismer. of Lowell and Shaker Heights, Ohio (English...