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...also speaks to liberals (ahem) who recognize that Williams raises valid points about the limitations of government, the need for personal responsibility, and the importance of strong community leaders. The book certainly has its flaws—it sometimes lacks nuance, has no statistical analysis, and is not terribly original??but is still worth reading as long as one remembers that it is just an extended op-ed that anyone could write after having read one of Sowell or Loury’s books...
...multiple levels of interpretation that account for our continued fascination.That is not a road taken by “Alice in Wonderland,” which will run through May 13 in the Loeb Ex. Here is a production of Lewis Carroll’s story that retains the original??s most memorable features while imbuing them with creative freshness rather than over-analysis. The result is an extremely ambitious production that succeeds in transforming a beloved book into a radiant theatrical spectacle.The play combines material from both of Carroll’s Alice books...
...first act is quite a knockout as these films go. Director Hideo Nakata (who directed The Japanese Ringu) and writer Ehren Kruger at least have fun subverting our expectations, albeit slightly, right from the opening scene. At first, the film appears to begin exactly the same way as the original??two naughty teenagers checking out the deadly videotape and getting iced—but, it turns out one of them (the male) is actually aware of the tape’s effect...
Livingstone and her colleague Bevil Conway, who happens to be a stereoblind painter, found later that Rembrandt’s self-portrait etchings—which are mirror images of the original??portray an averted right eye. Armed with ample evidence, Livingstone and Conway concluded that Rembrandt was indeed stereoblind, a syndrome that may have helped him produce three-dimensional paintings...
...Magnificent and original?? raves the Washington Post about Clarke’s debut novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, which has been both critically acclaimed and publicly adored. See her read from it at this event at the Harvard Book Store. Free and open to the public. Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Harvard Book Store...