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...prize for allusion must go to veteran American writer John Edgar Wideman. In response to Luc Lang's subversive tale of a zookeeper who teaches kids a lesson by getting his birds to bite them, Wideman pens a single, luminous, 2 1/2-page sentence about an American in Brittany who hears what he wrongly thinks is a demented young boy babbling incoherently. The story's title, Wolf Whistle, is the same as a 1993 Lewis Nordan novel about Emmett Till, the real-life civil rights martyr whose name Wideman's character eventually invokes: " ... I saw for the first time two parrots...
...less than 24 hours, the emperors of angst were gone. Bergman, 89, and Antonioni, 94, were two of the three surviving auteurs who defined serious European movies in the 60s - when serious movies pretty much were European. Of the decade's transcendent film figures, only that perpetual iconoclast Jean-luc Godard, 76, is left standing. If I were he, I'd insist on round-the-clock medical attention...
...served one term on the School Committee from 2004 to 2006, attributed his defeat in the 2005 election to three factors: many of his supporters concluded that he would be safely reelected because due to his strong performance in the 2003 election; challengers Patricia M. Nolan '80 and Luc D. Schuster won over some of his reform-minded base; and turnout in the election was “one of the lowest in memory...
...seriously is considering continuing the disastrous seduction of centrists," warned Jean-Luc Mélanchon, a member of the Socialist Party's hard-left flank. "It's clear that to avoid the right sweeping again, the Socialist Party will have to refocus and regroup, and bond with the wider left to win as many seats in parliament as possible," agree Socialist official Henri Weber. "That will be overseen by members of the party's leadership...
...boss was responsible for cutting up old reels from classic directors like François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Goddard, and Federico Fellini, sometimes hacking at random to prepare the film for broadcast on late-night television...