Word: lucidity
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...could debate the film?s luscious, lucid photography, by Wong?s visual enabler Christopher Doyle. Indeed, Tarantino said that ?2046? might have won a cinematography prize, but there was no such category available. But he did announce a Prix du Jury (essentially third place) to another Asian film about the rapture of lost love. Unfortunately, it was a fairly dreadful one: Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul?s ?Tropical Malady,? in which one man falls in love with another and tracks him through the jungle. This artless, plotless film had, according to Tarantino, ?the strongest defenders on the Jury.? And the strongest...
Although Ladd says the process of bringing foreign students into the country this year was much more lucid than it was last year, about 10 students almost didn’t make it to Harvard this fall...
...been able to visit his own country in 45 years. Yet amid all he has lost, he has given something indelible to the world. He has shown that justice and nonviolence have a power of their own and converted the extremely rigorous precepts of his philosophy into lucid truths that people of any faith can learn from. And he has shown that globalism can be a way of taking seriously the idea that all of us are one another's neighbors and that Tibet--and China--are part of our responsibility, as we are of theirs. Long after his instant...
...words of President Lowell in his address at the Boston University graduation yesterday reiterate, by antithesis, the proper relation of teacher and student. The effective teacher can make learning attractive but cannot remove its intrinsic difficulties. The pupil without will to break his co coon cannot comprehend the most lucid of expositions...
...supposedly lucid writing, the show itself has drawn a multitude of interpretations from its cast and crew. Co-producer Alex H. Bush ’05-’06 emphasizes Roberto Zucco’s melodramatic aspects, noting that “it needs to be theater. There’s a lot of cruelty in the way the characters talk to each other that’s very theatrical and very unrealistic...