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...representative example of the songwriting comes from “Cue the Elephants”: “The morning belonged to the grapefruit / Ripe in the gold Roman sun.” This kind of pretension is more grating even than that of “South China Moon?? and, once again, represents the genre at its worst. An isolated instance of clever wordplay does not an Elvis Costello make. That is not to say that “Grr…” is uniformly without merit. There are moments, few as they...
...However, the familiarity of the content and the predictability of the outcome take away from the story’s impact. I got the feeling that I had seen the same characters in “The Color Purple” and “The Man in the Moon??—however, those are two of my favorite movies, so maybe that’s not a bad thing. Also, you get the sense that some relationships, such as that between Rosaleen and Lily, could have been explored further. Although the movie reads as a watered...
...location of United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon??s speech at Harvard yesterday was ironically fitting; Ban spoke of the influence President John F. Kennedy ’40 had on his life while standing in the Institute of Politics forum bearing the president’s name. In his introduction of Ban, former Kennedy School dean Graham T. Allison ’62 recalled that he first met the South Korean native when he arrived at the Kennedy School as a Master of Public Administration student in 1983. “He shook my hand...
It’s not hard to see why “Under the Same Moon?? (“La Misma luna”) received a standing ovation at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. It contains basically everything that would appeal to your average guilt-ridden liberal: lots of ethnic flavor, bad white people, hard-working Mexicans, and an adorable kid who embodies everything good about (illegal) immigrant heroism. Overall, “Under the Same Moon?? is watchable, entertaining, and well-meaning, but the predictable plot fails to address immigration as a complex social issue...
While partial lunar eclipses occur at least twice a year, the moon??s orbital plane is not always perfectly aligned with the Earth?...