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Even high caliber films from Saving Private Ryan to Platoon embody an overwhelming sense of the uncanny human ability to destroy. Thus, when the gods of film restoration rediscover a masterpiece like Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion, the film's social commentary and reflections on humanity appear dated and escape...
Toted as the seminal World War I movie, Grand Illusion often garnishes critical accolades for its anti-war message as well as Renoir's masterful use of landscape shots. In 1938, a year after its release, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, the first foreign...
Rodney Pratt, head coach of the B.U. men's heavyweight crew, comments on his program saying, "Being a coach, you realize you're not in control of everything--it's all an illusion. I would like to beat everybody but I don't think we have a chance to beat...
Her 1993 book, Enchantment and Disenchantment : Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature, explores the concepts of love and waking up from illusions. In it, Li examines Chinese poetry from the 2nd and 3rd centuries B.C.E.
Now, instead of transparent favoritism and elitism, we have something worse: the illusion of meritocracy. We waste countless hours--and reams of paper--elaborately pretending we're not just as likely to pick our friends and cronies as were our Gilded Age predecessors. Ironically, the final clubs, no matter what...