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...whenever possible. She thinks that all education in film studies is evil because it gets between a movie and that mythical "response" of the viewer. She thus lacks any consistent set of critical criteria, or any goals for art broader than immediate pleasure. (She even brags about seldom changing her opinion on a film after she has seen it once). The only base on which her criticism stands is her own jumbled psyche. It's no wonder that her proteges -- men like Gary Arnold of The Washington Post or David Denby of The Atlantic--are, in critical profile, her exact...
...whenever possible. She thinks that all education in film studies is evil because it gets between a movie and that mythical "response" of the viewer. She thus lacks any consistent set of critical criteria, or any goals for art broader than immediate pleasure. (She even brags about seldom changing her opinion on a film after she has seen it once). The only base on which her criticism stands is her own jumbled psyche. It's no wonder that her proteges -- men like Gary Arnold of The Washington Post or David Denby of The Atlantic--are, in critical profile, her exact...
...tombstones. With most international companies long departed, billboards advertise mostly local products, such as Spirulina ("Beer That Makes You Young Forever"), or nothing at all. Like in a city at war, fruit and vegetables are cultivated in the grounds of public buildings. Part of the front lawn of the seldom-visited Drug Elimination Museum, built to whitewash the regime's dubious antinarcotics record, has been turned into a pomelo orchard. Power shortages still plague the capital, as they did during my first visit more than seven years ago, and emergency generators clog the pavements. With municipal water supplies equally erratic...
...that, aged 16, one of the most talented swimmers of all time walked away from the sport, rarely to be seen by the public for 25 years. Comebacks seldom work. Typically, the retired athlete, deprived of the thrills of his prime, returns full of hope, only to be promptly reminded why he left: his body doesn't work like it used to. What Gould is doing amounts to a comeback: on April 1, aged 47, she'll crouch on the blocks beside teen-agers to contest the 50-m butterfly at the Australian Olympic Team Swimming Trials in Sydney...
...Grammar School, lives with 17 other children at a nearby boarding house and looks adults she's just met square in the eye. Funded by the Victorian Institute of Sport, she has free, year-round access to masseurs, physiotherapists and psychologists. Though separated by distance from her family, she seldom wants for reassurance. Sometimes this comes from coach Taylor, who's determined not to rush her. "The plan is to prepare her for a career in the sport," he says. Still, the first six months in Melbourne were hard: she longed for home and the training felt like drudgery...