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...decades, TIME has documented the unique role that Graham has played in American life. He has preached to more people in more places than anyone else who ever lived. At the same time, his private ministry to Presidents, going back to Harry Truman, offers profound insight into the forces that have shaped both politics and religion in America--and the costs and benefits of marrying...
...Seen today, 47 years later, L'Avventura seems easy to read, a treat to watch and a pretty profound parable on the limits of fidelity and friendship. The movie's title, which translates as The Adventure, was not a joke; it was an apt appraisal of the intellectual thrills the film would provide for its viewers. Adventure was also the word for the challenges in form and content that Antonioni and other '60s pioneers would bring to '60s cinema. And yet that first, boorish benighted Cannes audience did have a couple of very conventional reasons to be outraged...
...most profound experience I’ve had while doing this research is that I have discovered that the biases that we’ve discovered in other people lie in my own mind, too,” Banaji said. “It really brings about an enormous humility...it’s something that brings understanding and realization—that people who don’t intend to do harm might still be doing...
Exactly. The world saw him as a genius, and he was worrying about the weekend grosses. Yet he was plain and colloquial in speech, not full of profound pronunciamentos about life. Sven Nykvist [his cinematographer] told me that when they were doing all those scenes about death and dying, they'd be cracking jokes and gossiping about the actors' sex lives...
...Exactly. The world saw him as a genius, and he was worrying about the weekend grosses. Yet he was plain and colloquial in speech, not full of profound pronunciamentos about life. Sven Nykvist [his cinematographer] told me that when they were doing all those scenes about death and dying, they'd be cracking jokes and gossiping about the actors' sex lives...