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...China, it’s a non-subject, a subject the party does not want to talk about,” Goldman said. Travis B. Pierce, a student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ East Asian program, praised the film for its unique, first-person insight into the period. “When I’m in China, I’m usually with people my age or in urban areas and don’t directly interact with people who experienced it,” he said. For people of his generation, he said...
...fault are not quite correct,” Sonntag said. “But there needs to be an international solution, so everything he said bears looking at.” Timothy F. Krysiek, a Cambridge energy consultant who attended the lecture, found that Rashid’s insight was important but unavailable to the American public. “It’s such a pressing issue, such a part of our political debate, but you would never get him unplugged for 15 minutes on CNN,” Krysiek said...
...false intimacies of modern life, the promise of a presidential campaign may be the most misleading. We think we know these men well enough to judge them. They come into our living rooms every night, plying us with insight and confession; we know the prayers they say and the beer they drink, their tics, their tastes, their talismans...
Similarly, Mundy's account of the strain Barack's political ambitions have placed on his family may seem revelatory, unless one has read his book, The Audacity of Hope, in which he writes about this topic extensively. Mundy offers some insight about Michelle simply by putting her life into context - describing the black experience in Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s, for example, and the cliqueishness of Harvard Law School. For those wanting to understand the basic life experiences that influenced Michelle Obama, Mundy's portrait is a reliable field guide...
...tiny $30 million budget and gave it a rich, polished look - but not for the scope of his vision. W. isn't tragedy or farce; it's illustrated journalism, based mostly on extant Bush biographies and memoirs of early Bush appointees. All the incidents are there but not the insight. What's missing is the one thing Stone films have never lacked: a point of view...