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...Savage Detectives,” Chilean author Roberto Bolaño’s greatest novel, is a kaleidoscopic fictional autobiography—a treatise on youth, love, literature and death—whose frame is the journal of the Mexican poet Juan García Madero. Madero is the disciple, devotee and faithful hanger-on of two older poets, Arturo Belano (Bolaño’s alter ego throughout his fiction) and Ulises Lima, who follows the pair through the Sonora Desert in flight from a violent pimp and his henchmen. The intervening chapters of the novel?...
Live actors in a Wes Anderson movie put on a sort of theater of artifice; faces become masks, from behind which the humanity of a character can either struggle or fail to emerge. Perhaps the greatest failure of “The Darjeeling Limited” was in reversing this formula instead of developing on it. But the utterly blank faces of Fox, his family, and friends—posturing, wry, flummoxed, or brooding countenances as they fit their respective characters—allow for development that’s left totally up to the script. Fox?...
...describes him as “a solid ‘four-man’ prospect for the mid-major level.” He averaged 16.6 points and 6.6 rebounds per game in his junior season. According to his high school coach Greg Harcos, Moore’s greatest strength lies in his shooting ability, which he called “unbelievable.” “Three-pointers are layups for him,” Harcos said. “I’ve had some really good shooters, and he’s the best...
Peabody Terrace’s greatest contribution to the campus’ architecture may be that it achieves the impossible: it makes its neighbor, Mather, look attractive. Sert’s graduate student housing complex, built in 1964, may have been lauded for its innovative combination of building size and community-oriented design, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is oppressively ugly. The concrete towers and multi-colored metal shutters on the river-side windows seem to go out of their way to ruin what is otherwise an impressive set of buildings and, unfortunately, they...
...hard to know exactly what the commentariat was looking for. Bill O’Reilly criticized that Tuesday’s speech “was no Gettysburg address.” I suppose that if your standard for every speech is that it be the greatest in American political history, you will suffer occasional disappointment...