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...Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right through the aftermath of the 2004 election. In its concentration on the Air America stint, the film inevitably covers much the same material as last year?s Left of the Dial. But it?s a frank-seeming portrait of a man who can always attract a crowd of autograph seekers, even at the Republican National Convention of 2004. (Franken takes it in stride, noting, ?In this country, celebrity trumps ideology.?) He is a kind of crucial figure, for he straddles a span that continues to shrink: the space...
...movie, though it was made by the wonderful Canadian zany Guy Maddin, because I heard that some members of the Rossellini family were outraged by it, and I was not in a mood to take sides between two groups I respect. In Robert Frank: Leaving Home Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank, director Gerald Fox manages to pry open the can of steely reserve the director-photographer normally encases himself in, and in the process opens up not only Frank (who will be 82 in November) but his work. It deserves to be explored by a wider audience, whether...
...portrait of former University President A. Lawrence Lowell. Urinate on it in honor of the many minorities he metaphorically urinated upon...
Greeted by Mozart, crab cakes, and $30 bottles of champagne, a who’s who of Harvard filled the Faculty Room in University Hall yesterday for the unveiling of the official portrait of former University President Neil L. Rudenstine.Appearing amid the pomp and pageantry were some of Harvard’s most low-profile leaders, including incoming Interim President Derek C. Bok and three members of the secretive Harvard Corporation, the University’s top governing body.Before the portrait was revealed, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, reading from a single pink Post-It note, delivered...
...spent some time close to al-Zarqawi, commanders of two Iraqi insurgent groups who have met the Jordanian-born terrorist, U.S. counterterrorism officials-- who confirmed some aspects and cast doubt on others--and others who have tracked his career closely. Their accounts provide a rare and intimate portrait of a fugitive who, despite being the most feared man in Iraq, has also remained the most obscure. After three years in which al-Zarqawi has helped turn Iraq into a terrorist breeding ground and claimed responsibility for the deaths of hundreds, new images of his visage emerged last week...