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...behind the camera. Paxton clearly has learned the art of showing a story (as opposed to overtly telling his explicit intentions), but when actors decide to add the director title to their resumes, the tales they tell tend to be either acute, personal (melo)dramas or “idea?? films that tackle supposedly weighty and relevant subject matters. Unfortunately, there is nothing personally touching to Paxton or particularly universal about the “religiously-motivated-murderous-sociopath” genre. Paxton does defy convention and wrench hearts with his portrayal of children. His work with...
...February 2001, Horowitz submitted an advertisement to about 30 college newspapers entitled “Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea??and Racist...
Horowitz is becoming a perennial spring presence at Harvard; last year around this time, he asked The Crimson to run a controversial advertisement, “10 Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery Is a Bad Idea??And Racist Too,” to help publicize his book of the same title...
...attempting to carve out a turf for the mental, Frattaroli goes too far in his unqualified distinguishing of it from the physical. But again—until neuroscience progresses much further than it has today, a concept of the soul isn’t such a bad idea??as long as we understand that some day in the future—perhaps the distant future, perhaps not—it will become obsolete...
...movement to an earthy sepia red walled room brings with it the organic distillment of the constant connection between Bronson’s own life and the greater significance of the global AIDS crisis. Three life-size portraits of General Idea??s Jorge Zontal, weeks before his own death, rest against the wall. Zontal’s father was an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor, and Zontal believed that his gaunt, diseased ravaged body must have resembled his father’s own broken visage on liberation day. Bronson “had to act as his mirror...