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...virtual no-shows. The secret sibling is Stone himself, who, like Dubya, came from a wealthy family and entered Yale in 1964. He left after a year and wound up in Vietnam, where his destiny ambushed him. Perhaps the political biography Stone really should put on film is John McCain...
...President of the U.S., the W. could have stood for a pleased or outraged What!? Stone made his rep, or his rap sheet, with ferocious retakes of recent American history: the Vietnam War in Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven and Earth; the investigation of the John F. Kennedy assassination in JFK; and, in Nixon, the life of the only President to resign his office. All those subjects allowed for a certain ambiguity, but Stone - a dramatist first, dispassionate chronicler never - pushed political views that might have been lopsided but usually resulted in terrific films with...
...recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal, which is given every other year to "that economist under 40 who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic knowledge...
...Quotes about Krugman: • "The best claimant to the mantle of John Maynard Keynes." - economist Brad DeLong...
...women in bejeweled tutus but no pointe shoes, and steps in the purely classical ballet idiom crassly segued into flexed feet and robotic contractions. It was interesting, then, to watch Forsythe’s own “Vile Parody of Address” seven pieces later. Danced by John Lam, the very contemporary ballet provided a fascinating study of the subconscious. Fundamentally rooted in improvisation, it is largely up to the interpreter to set the mood of the dance. Lam was both desperately somber and charmingly lighthearted, and his unmatchable plasticity gave way to extraordinarily sketched patterns...