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...Though some may think this writer’s views overmuch, to me the entire [Ogletree] incident further stimulates longstanding concern about, and may in fact reflect, forms of corrupt conduct that have become pervasive in America today,” he wrote last September...
...Lauren’s friends certainly knew that she was writing a novel, but she didn’t talk about it overmuch,” writes Willig’s friend Elizabeth W. Mellyn in an e-mail. Mellyn, a fifth-year doctoral student in history—who, as it happens, is working on The Relic Thieves, a young-adult novel set in fifteenth-century Italy—knows something about balancing fiction with graduate-level history...
...closer federation—for trade purposes, of course—with the rest of the Greek world. This cannot be allowed by Rome, if we are to maintain our income from the provinces, and, hence, our control of the Empire. Nor can we contemplate the Greeks trading overmuch with the Parthians. We may be at peace with the Parthians now, but they are a looming presence in the East, and, one day, might do more than trade with the Greeks. Compared to such a prospect, the Punic Wars would be like a day at the Games...
...trick in a movie aiming at romantic refinement is to avoid being either pushy or inert. There Possession fails, certainly in the modern half of the story. Actors preen overmuch; Paltrow again imitates Englishness by sucking in her suave cheeks; Eckhart (a LaBute regular) works too hard at being the outspoken American abroad. Gabriel Yared's music is forced to do the actors' emoting for them--a sure sign the director doesn't trust the story to carry the feeling...
...musical "Way Down South," a collaboration with Langston Hughes (the only movie work the poet-playwright-essayist did), and, the following year, "Broken Strings," a sweet-tempered indie drama in which Muse starred. An impressive resume. Just as impressive is that he achieved this screen familiarity without bending overmuch to the meanest stereotypes expected of black actors...