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...morality. It is pleasant to believe that God wants us to behave well, and that if we do, we may be making those choices that he hoped for when he let us alone. Then again, we may not. What if God is who James Joyce said he is in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, one who sits back after creation "paring his fingernails"? The idea is hard to swallow, which is what makes faith equally confounding and thrilling...
...opposite extreme from this image is Signac's wonderful and bizarre Portrait of Felix Feneon, Opus 217, 1890-91--the fox-jawed face with its little tuft of beard in profile, the hand holding a cyclamen, against a madly spiraling background of fruit-jelly abstract forms. The dandified, loony energy of Feneon's argot-filled writing seems impacted into that background, even though its source is a Japanese kimono pattern. My, you think, those guys must have had some laughs together. Which they...
Guests reminisced about Pusey’s life in the lavish Harvard Hall, where a portrait of Pusey was prominently displayed, accompanied by three votive candles...
...process known as game theory and won the Nobel Prize after years of battling with schizophrenia. With Mr. Hit-and-Miss Ron Howard directing, the craftsman of trash like Far and Away and gems like Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind has the potential to be an edgy, revealing biographical portrait. It also has the possibility of being uplifting, pretentious garbage. Only a Christmas Day outing will tell...
...issues such as appearance versus reality, and casual sex versus true love. The relationships between David and his best friend Brian (Jason Lee) and his psychiatrist (Kurt Russell) provide a much-needed contrast to his relationships with the female characters, and serve to complicate an already complicated psychological portrait...