Word: painful
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...simply knew him from his movies [Feb. 4]. He had so much more to offer. I will remember him best for his poignant portrayal of Ennis Del Mar, one of the gay cowboys in Brokeback Mountain. Ledger showed great sensitivity and understanding in conveying all the joy and pain his character experienced. That is the measure of a great actor. For that, Ledger will be truly missed. Frederick R. Bedell Jr., BELLEROSE...
...simply knew him from his movies [Feb. 4]. He had so much more to offer. I will remember him best for his poignant portrayal of Ennis Del Mar, one of the gay cowboys in Brokeback Mountain. Ledger showed great sensitivity and understanding in conveying all the joy and pain his character experienced. That is the measure of a great actor. For that, Ledger will be truly missed...
...then, as a religion professor and best-selling author (2005's Misquoting Jesus), he has knowledgeably subverted his old beliefs. Here his biblical expertise is a help and a hindrance, since his conceit is to examine only explanations of suffering that appear in Scripture. As Ehrman takes issue with pain--portrayed as punishment for sin (in Genesis et al.), as a consequence of others' sin (in the Psalms), as a redemptive act (the Gospels) or as an unknowable part of Providence (Job)--Scripture does come to seem inconsistent and insufficient...
...because we’ve ceased to think about courses as pursuits and given over entirely to thinking of them as obligations. A favorite word to look for in the Q is ‘painless’, as if the predominant emotion felt in a class is otherwise pain and misery. A study card has more in common now with an income tax form than with an expression of intellectual curiosity. It’s easy to file this commentary into a bin of wistful idealism, but there are very real ramifications to the rampant quantification of our academic...
...Bruce Weber’s 1988 documentary, when legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker betrays a rare moment of honesty. When Baker learns in an interview that he’s secured a shipment of prescription painkillers from a doctor in Europe, the once-great artist looks with the pain of a mendicant in his eyes and says, “I didn’t know if I would make it through the week.”Screened for the first time in ten years this past weekend at the Brattle Theater, “Let?...