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Instead of “JFK’s” multi-layered political intrigue, Estevez provides little moral gray area in “Bobby”—bad is bad, good is good, and RFK is canonized as the next American saint. Although Estevez’s immense admiration for RFK remains quite evident in the black-and-white images he selects and the words he writes, the bulk of the film leaves something to be desired. “Bobby” leaves you unsatisfied. Even Ashton Kutcher’s humorous stint...
...Humanities courses—Humanities 10, “An Introductory Humanities Colloquium,” Humanities 12, “‘Strange Mutations’: Classical and Renaissance Representations of the Human Condition,” and Humanities 16, “Existential Fictions: From Saint Augustine to Jean-Paul Sartre and Beyond”—were approved this semester during shopping period as Literature and Arts A bypasses.Two English courses, English 17x: “19th Century American Novel” and English 166x: “The Postcolonial Classic” were approved...
...rediscovery in 1981 of an original print of Dreyer's silent masterpiece. On its release in 1928 the film was cut by censors and condemned by French nationalists and the Catholic Church, who objected to a Danish Protestant director daring to film the story of the French Catholic saint. Later the negative was destroyed in a fire. Dreyer constructed a new version using the negatives of alternate takes from his original filming. That too was lost in a fire. But 25 years ago, in a closet at a Norwegian mental institution, a complete print of the original somehow turned...
...exit polls suggest that the Bush Administration and its handling of the Iraq war also weighed heavily on voters' minds. "What brought Talent down wasn't Talent," said pollster and Saint Louis University political science professor Ken Warren. "There's no question about it, this was a referendum on the Bush Administration...
...Harvard alumni can be anything between one of Satan’s imps and a saint,” Womack said. “So the fact that Mr. Montealegre went to Harvard cuts no ice with me. Harvard leaders on the whole are better for bankers and the worst for working people...