Word: instantness
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...Manchester, England, department store where his mum used to work. Left alone for a moment, he feels mournful, bereft--and then panicky, when he thinks he has been deserted again. In an ordinary movie, the situation might call for a freshet of tears to guarantee an audience's instant pity. But in this film, Millions, with this young actor, Alex Etel, subtlety is the key. His eyes mist up, just enough to cue the attentive viewer to the desperation of the sweetest child in the English Midlands...
...complex…it is not sophisticated. It is not intricate or undiscovered, secret or unknown. It is a clear and simple matter of the inability of intellectually asphyxiated people to summon up the courage for an overwhelming and restless instant of denunciation. We do not possess the sense of moral leverage to rise up and to denounce the evil now committed in our name...
DIED. JOHN RAITT, 88, Broadway baritone; of complications from pneumonia; in Los Angeles. To a later generation, he was known as the father of pop-blues singer Bonnie Raitt, but he became an instant star back in 1945 as Billy Bigelow, the antihero of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel (their showstopping 7-min.-long Soliloquy was written for him). Raitt also starred in Broadway's Carnival in Flanders and the 1954 hit The Pajama Game...
...Island Bar for anti-Semitism. He castigated professors too timid to challenge University President Lawrence H. Summers, calling them “victims of cowardice.” He so rarely has anything positive to say that his praise of Laurie B. Puhn ’99 author of Instant Persuasion, the Coop’s featured book last week, speaks volumes...
...Instant Persuasion explores communication involved in everyday life and its ability to both help and hurt our interactions with each other. Puhn describes how each individual has a “sphere of influence,” composed of people who know and love that person. One can either draw people into their “sphere of influence,” by making what Puhn calls “communication wonders,” or conversely, push them away with “communication blunders...