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...website, the Flick Filosopher, in your article about reviewers whose critiques appear online [CULTURE, Aug. 27], I am sorry that you questioned my integrity as a film critic without giving me the opportunity to respond. One of the joys of producing a labor-of-love site like mine is that I do not have an editor or a publisher pressuring me to give a film a good review. The editorial freedom I have allows me to blast any and all films that deserve it--something I have to do with alarming frequency. Yes, I write screenplays. Yes, I would love...
...Long Island basement," he says with a laugh. The song speeds up and, wanting to show off some complicated turns, he asks to have this dance. He's clumsy but an emotional dancer. Then, without warning, he starts in on the chorus of Eres Mia (You Are Mine), a song that he says reminds him of his wife. His pliant and melodious voice rises and falls, conveying a sense of yearning. He sustains a note in space. Though only 5 ft. 7 in. tall and thin as a reed, he carries the voice of a giant...
...Flight 93 stayed aloft a few seconds longer, it would have plowed into Shanksville-Stonycreek School and its 501 students, grades K through 12. Instead, at 10:06 a.m., the plane smashed into a reclaimed section of an old coal strip mine. The largest pieces of the plane still extant are barely bigger than a telephone book. "I just keep thinking--two miles," said elementary principal Rosemarie Tipton. "There but for the grace of God--two miles...
First, allow me to back up and relate a conversation I had two months ago with a friend of mine, a Harvard student whose intelligence and integrity I deeply respect. We were studying in Beijing for the summer and, after a weekend excursion to Inner Mongolia, stood awaiting our return train from Hohot. Our conversation centered around the text of the following day’s lesson: an article from the People’s Daily, China’s main state newspaper, that criticized the social and economic structure of the United States. After venting my frustration over what...
...Flight 93 stayed aloft a few seconds longer, it would have plowed into Shanksville-Stonycreek School and its 501 students, grades K through 12. Instead, at 10:06 a.m., the plane smashed into a reclaimed section of an old coal strip mine. The largest pieces of the plane still extant are barely bigger than a telephone book. "I just keep thinking--two miles," said elementary principal Rosemarie Tipton. "There but for the grace of God--two miles...