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...surprise, Nixon invited her to his office in New Jersey; upon graduation in 1990 the 21-year-old novice entered the 77-year-old ex-President's shrinking inner circle as his foreign policy assistant. More than that, she became an acolyte at the foot of the sage, an amanuensis chronicling his every word (she insists she did not tape his monologues but reconstructed his often page-long quotes from her notes). Assured by a long-time Nixon associate that the former President was "speaking to history," she is certain he would be pleased: "I felt that he trusted...
...Rembrandt, and the best of them justify it. He begins, in his own images, as a wild man, a solitary, an uncouth glaring peasant with greasy hair massed on either side of the pale dome of a bald head; he ends, in his last years, as a kind of sage. Between the extremes is a painting like the Self-Portrait (Portrait of the Artist with a Rose Background), with its powerfully modeled head, "formed," as Rainer Maria Rilke wrote after he saw it at the 1907 Paris Salon, "as though by hammering from within." The figure gazes at you with...
After skimming several newspapers and checking his e-mail, Brokaw runs a 4-mile loop around Central Park with his yellow Labrador, Sage the Wonderdog...
Ironically, "Dead Man" is so strong in terms of style and sound that the script ends up being the weakest part of the film. Though Jarmusch intended the Native American character to break the two stereotypes of either "the savage who must be eradicated...or the all-knowing sage...that must mix in completely with nature." The character Nobody seems to resemble the latter. He is both overly noble and gratingly mystic, even if his mysticism is related not to "nature" but to the writings of William Blake. Gary Farmer portrays Nobody with the kind of inscrutable poker-face...
...machine. But Thoreau, while certainly a radical, was also somewhat of a visionary. He communed intensely with nature. The Unabomber suspect, however, like Karl Marx and others who used violence to gain their ends, killed, maimed and fostered civil disorder. Thoreau was a man of learning who gave sage instruction. The Unabomber is a man of cunning who wreaks violent destruction. One seeks to define the meaning of life; the other violates it. LEE G. MESTRES Yardley, Pennsylvania...