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...first moments of the movie are beautiful—shots of the British waters are accompanied by Frank’s gruff voice, “This is a poem. I found it in the library, for my son,” and seem to promise an unusual tale of soul-searching. Yet the film almost immediately devolves into predictable, mediocre jokes and characterizations. It seems to want desperately to be a crowd-pleaser, but it’s trying so hard that it feels a bit disingenuous...
...podium, a man who didn't merely feel the crowd's pain but shared it. And Kennedy reciprocated: he laid himself bare for them, speaking of the death of his brother-something he'd never done publicly and rarely privately-and then he said, "My favorite poem, my favorite poet was Aeschylus. He once wrote, 'Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart,'" he paused, his voice quivering slightly as he caressed every word. The silence had deepened, somehow; the moment was stunning. "'Until ... in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom...
...features are lightly indicated-a rare occurrence, as Michelangelo avoided portraiture. According to his contemporary, the famous chronicler Giorgio Vasari, "he abhorred anything from life unless it was of the utmost beauty." Occasionally, though, he pulled grotesque faces out of his imagination. Some of the sheets have notes or poems scribbled among the figures. One explains exactly where on the artist's premises are the various components of the tomb of Pope Julius II, which Michelangelo worked on for 40 years-his original conception was never completed. Another sheet shows tiny first thoughts for the dying slaves which formed part...
...From her poem “Landscape,” Glück wrote...
...mercurial shifts in emotional expression as the cagey, egotistical Jen in “The Lifeboat is Sinking.” Carolyn A. McCandlish ’07 is also to be praised for her acting range, playing both the titular role in a recitation of the poem “Sarah Cynthia Silvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out” as an utterly psychotic little girl, and the role of old, bitter, jaded Nellie in “No Soliciting.” Possibly the darkest and most disturbing scene was “The Best Daddy...