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...considers himself a materialist, if in a "thin" sense. He presumes there is some physical explanation for subjective experience, even though he doubts that the human brain--or mind, or whatever--can ever grasp it. Nevertheless, McGinn doesn't laugh at people who take the water-into-wine metaphor more literally. "I think in a way it's legitimate to take the mystery of consciousness and convert it into a theological system. I don't do that myself, but I think in a sense it's more rational than strict materialism, because it respects the data." That is, it respects...
...star of Braveheart, praises editor Rosenblum for his "story sense," which allowed them to cut entire chunks without losing the flow. One cut: a long sequence in which the hero catches wind of a British ambush planned to take place at his wife's grave. Gibson has a graphic metaphor for experienced editors: "They're like great surgeons, able to make the right kind of adjustments in places that most of us wouldn't look for. They get into that room with a pair of scissors, cut the cancer out, slap it back together to see if it works...
...CALIF.; Artist A homeless Army veteran, he volunteers time to teach sculpture to gang members and abused children. Influenced by Warhol and Picasso, Brantley began using coat-hanger wire to create angels and other mythical beings after his paints and brushes were stolen. He regards his sculpture as a metaphor for life and his students: "I don't see these images until I use a bending and molding force, accepting all the imperfections with the perfections." 55 YEARS AGO IN TIME...
...Morissettes. One is an unruly child, another a calm "good" sister, and in the driver's seat, Morissette is also the attentive parent--one eye on the road, one eye on the rear-view mirror to keep watch over the kids. It's a charming clip and an apt metaphor for Morissette's career. As a teen star in her native Canada, she played the part of the well-behaved good sister. Now, on her U.S. debut album, Jagged Little Pill, she has transformed herself into a passionate and unruly rocker. But like the parent in the front seat, Morissette...
...artificial eye turned inward is not a bad metaphor for the world according to Wallace. So is tennis, as represented here by the Incandenzas' son Hal, a teen court prodigy with a gift for lexicography and a taste for recreational drugs. The game as Wallace portrays it is a good illustration of the paradox that there is no freedom without rules and limits. But where mindless circuitry and drugs prevail, human connections break and emotional blindness ensues. Gone too is that key imperative of Western civilization, "Know thyself." Hal, ever the global-village explainer, logs his own symptoms: a feeling...