Word: paragone
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...most often associated with “realness” in hip-hop—Jurassic 5, Common, Blackalicious and so on—is that the idea of realness itself is all they ultimately represent. Common’s Like Water For Chocolate was meant to be a paragon of “soul,” but its Soulquarian tracks were so calculatedly proper that Common’s substance got buried in their style. “The Light” is moving enough, but there’s also a smugly clinical gloss all over...
...believe that Keaton’s character would spend the next three days in toddler-style hysterics? Making the story all the more unbelievable is Keaton’s acting; Something’s Gotta Give makes you wish Keaton had the dramatic restraint shown by her costar: that paragon of actorly subtlety, Keanu Reeves...
...outperforming the euro zone, and Blair can - and often does - boast of historically low unemployment. Even his tuition-fee bill is more generous to students from poorer backgrounds than the current system. And while Kelly's death was tragic, the evidence given to Hutton also shows he was no paragon: he did not tell the whole truth to his bosses or Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee about his contacts with reporters, and gave conflicting views about the integrity of the government's dossier on Iraqi WMD. But Blair has two vulnerabilities he cannot shake off. One is Iraq. He demanded...
...this propagandizing unintentional, as the Pulitzer Board seemed to imply? No one can say for sure. But it’s hard to imagine that a man who would spend the next two years deliberately concealing a genocidal famine was a paragon of integrity in 1931. Moreover, Duranty’s sources were almost exclusively Soviet authorities. Would he really have been naive enough to trust their veracity so blindly...
...This paragon of contemporary cinema came to Harvard on Tuesday to speak at a screening of this 2001 film at the Harvard Film Archive, to a room packed with film enthusiasts. Tsai has a real sense of both the heights and depths of the human condition, and his filmmaking style reflects that...