Word: interestingness
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In Noah Baumbach's heavily heralded previous picture, The Squid and the Whale, a father defines a philistine as someone who "doesn't care about books or interesting films and things," to which his son calmly replies, "I'm a philistine." To be honest, I'm with the kid - especially...
Lindsay Tanner "Australia is one of the few countries in the world where academic is a term of derision." Experience: Shadow Minister for Finance since 2005 Seen as one of Labor's thinkers, Tanner has published several books, most recently arguing that Australians are "losing our sense of connection with...
The ghost of a lost love, the dissonance of a musical trio, and the frustrations of a writer seeking to put his passion into words were all captured yesterday in the opening night of three usually neglected works by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. The three plays, originally produced in April...
Bolton's outspoken policy views have long been familiar, but what's most interesting about his new book is the sheer enthusiasm with which he has adopted the mantle of the most vocal neoconservative critic of the Bush Administration's foreign policy, only months after resigning from the Bush team...
Loyalty isn't just any virtue for Giuliani; in his memoirs he called it "the vital virtue." That's an interesting plug from a man who has been married three times and informed one of his ex-wives that their marriage was over at a press conference. Loyalty, an attractive...