Word: merited
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...Another masterpiece released in teasing installments, the first half of David B.'s phantasmagorical memoir about growing up with an epileptic brother was brilliant enough to merit the top spot in TIME's top comix list of 2002. Finally partnered with the second half as a complete graphic novel, readers can at last enjoy the full scope of Epileptic's remarkable meditation on the nature of illness, the impact of history on the present, and the need to create fantasies and art. David B. seems to have total recall of what it was like growing up with a stigmatized brother...
...Great Heights” appeared on the “Garden State” soundtrack. Fittingly enough, he played a set full of inspired reworkings of his own catalog.A stripped-down, softly finger-picked version of “Southern Anthem” was the best example of the merit of this approach for an audience familiar with his recorded material. Lyrical couplets like “Frozen, the river that baptized you/And the horse died standing up” came to the fore, and his gentle chorus hung over the crowd. Beam’s wordless, falsetto harmonizing with...
...Crimson has a long tradition of picking favorites and alienating the rest. My freshman year, I was FM’s favorite. This fact has probably formed the basis of my collegiate confidence ever since, despite my deep-down knowledge that the prize was less about actual merit than about shared sensibilities...
...while she is performing for all of Kyoto, her facial expressions convey that she is personally dancing for the Chairman (Ken Watanabe) whom she loves. There is always the risk that Hollywood’s sound and visual effects will ruin the text’s literary merit, but the cinematic techniques of “Memoirs of a Geisha” actually enhance the tone and mood of the story. In the opening scene, in which Chiyo and her sister are ripped away from their home, the lighting is very dim with dark bluish tones, and it is continually...
...theatres. If you read the book as a kid, or, like me, had it read to you, you would very likely be surprised by some of the ink that has recently been spilled over its screen adaptation. In a culture corrupted by filth and overflowing with movies whose artistic merit is alternately minimal or non-existent, it is odd that a film and a story as well-crafted and as beautiful as “Narnia” have been the target of such vitriol...