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PAOLO AND VITTORIO TAVIANI'S The Night of the Shooting Stars has all the qualities of a wonderful folktale--at once pungently earthy and dreamily fantastic. It unfolds to the leisurely rhythms of its own peculiar inner life and logic. It's a magical film, where the horrors of war, the crude beauty and humor of everyday existence, and the wonder of childhood all intersect in a flash of dream and memory...
...higher, though I'm not saying how high. I don't want to do it some day and get happy with it. I want to go higher and higher." Just how high a man can go, like how fast and how far, has always been the peculiar fascination of athletics in its purest form, track and field, where the athletes are not exactly pure but certainly are peculiar...
Rosovsky: I think it's fair in one sense. Tenure, explicit the way that academic tenure is, can only be found in higher education. It does not exist to my knowledge in business. We are peculiar in that way, and you could perhaps argue that the price of lifetime tenure is mandatory retirement. I would consider that to be a reasonable trade-off. But I'm not convinced that this law makes sense for the rest of society...
...travel through these stories are not always vibrant, nor are their lives necessarily riveting. None of them is intended primarily as a tragic figure, despite personal hardships, and Naylor occasionally errs too far towards the nonchalant in making that point clear: "She had almost learned to cope with his peculiar ways. A pot of burnt rice meant a fractured jaw or a wet bathroom floor a loose tooth." Each woman's story opens not with birth, or adolescence, or marriage, but with the moment that tragedy appears in her life, foreshadowing even greater misery...
...Abordello Doze 3, 1982, the degree of interference by overprinting, cutting and juxtaposition almost buries the motif in a landslide of variations, and yet Rauschenberg's close, laconic grasp of form saves the effect from chaos. The montage of alien images, clamoring for attention, cancels the peculiar voyeuristic steaminess of Courbet's original...