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...Daisy, an intimate tale of a Southern Jewish woman (Dana Ivey) and her black chauffeur (Morgan Freeman), told in vignettes ranging from just after World War II to the era of the civil rights movement. This little gem echoes decades of social change yet never loses focus on the peculiar equilibrium between servant and served. It reaches a peak when the old woman goes to a banquet honoring Martin Luther King Jr. -- an event her liberal but conformist | businessman son (Ray Gill) refuses to attend -- and cannot quite bring herself to invite the driver to accompany her until the moment...
Quite apart from the subject of sex, the procession of Presidents after Kennedy has included men of rather peculiar and divided psyche. Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter were personalities utterly different from one another, but they all shared, to some degree, an odd, self-thwarting trait. Each became his own worst enemy...
...century Tory, inclined by age and temperament to search in the world's youngest power for the country houses and formal gardens of the Old World. Adam, born into a world whose capital is more Los Angeles than London, is delighted to give himself up to the nation's peculiar enthusiasms, using culture shock as shock therapy. Nigel longs for history; Adam rejoices in its abolition. One typical day, Nigel inquires, "Why do I have to come to Kentucky to experience exactly the sensation of travelling through rural Hampshire in 1810?" Later he goes riding with a top-hatted "squire...
...Higher education is becoming the whipping boy for Bennett for reasons that have less to do with the state of higher education and more with his own peculiar ideas about budgeting and educating," says Harvard Vice President for Government and Community Affairs John Shattuck...
...work at least as much a part of the great artist--that genius which is peculiar to and defines him--as the child is of the surrogate mother? I would argue that it is even more so. The moral strength of "motherhood" doesn't derive from the mere carrying of the child. The mechanical rigors of childbirth are common to all women. The spirit and personality of the parent are not imparted so much in the biological production of the child as in the nurturing and rearing...