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...pulls off anything exceptional, though, admittedly, he has a lot to work with. His camera roves up and down the rocky shores, and there are scenes that would fit spectacularly in a National Geographic special. And in the mossy, dark house, he plays with light and shadow, angle and object, to striking effect...
Until now, the object of discussion has appeared immobile, his eyes half closed. Suddenly he springs into action, sharply rapping a pencil on the edge of a glass ashtray. The unexpected tinkling sound marks the beginning of what Stacie, a senior at North Caroline High, will later call the most exciting classroom experience of her life. For the next three days, Philosopher Mortimer Adler-compiler of the 54-volume set of the Great Books of the Western World, outliner of the 102 Great Ideas of All Time-is loose again, doing what he does best, teaching. In an experimental session...
...German Nobel-prizewinning novelist Heinrich Böll notes that though many shared Ginzburg's experience, "very few can narrate it, even fewer can write about it, and it is these few who transform personal experience into testimony." Ginzburg tells us that her book was the "main object" of her life in captivity. Like Solzhenitsyn she committed names, facts and events to memory by incorporating them into long rhymed poems that she could more easily memorize...
...also features a star turn by Lauren Bacall, the object of the psycho's attentions, that is brave, flashy and riveting. It is brave because she plays a woman on the shady side of 50 who hides neither her wrinkles nor the temperamental manipulativeness so common among aging stars; flashy because, besides singing and dancing, she trades in high-gloss show-biz bitchery that sometimes approaches the level of All About Eve; riveting because she shows a touching vulnerability about her professional and personal insecurities (she is torching for her ex-husband, played by James Garner). Bacall...
...Edith's protégé-like the young Dylan Thomas or the expatriate Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew, whom she loved for 30 years with all her virgin heart -was to become the object of an awesome and sometimes smothering loyalty, feudal in its fierceness...