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...around. It's been six months at least since I've been home for more than two days. It's fair to say Cambridge really has begun to feel like a home at last, perhaps oddly more so for me, having been born here. T.S. Eliot '09 said, "We shall not cease from exploration/And the end of all our exploring/Will be to arrive where we started/And know the place for the first time...
...though. Director Daisy von Scherler Mayer and the screenwriters treat the original tale like a bottle of Perrier left too long uncapped; the effervescence evaporates. Fine actors (Frances McDormand, Nigel Hawthorne) get swallowed whole, and the child stars are, shall we say, not swathed in charm. Madeline does finally face up to her orphanhood (a touching little scene), but by then the film is a lost cause, and Bemelmans' Madeline a lost soul...
This takes some getting used to. The big company I work for shall remain nameless, but it is a software manufacturer located in a suburb of Seattle. (Hint: the Janet Reno fan club has been disbanded.) This company prides itself on being different from other big companies, and it probably is in some ways. (Are there bare feet in the cafeteria at Procter & Gamble?) But maybe it is less different than it thinks...
Some people love dinner-party brawls. They hope, under the influence of several glasses of wine, to score a Churchillian bull's-eye along the lines of "Yes, madam, but tomorrow I shall be sober!" It never happens...
...Without concerned citizen action to uphold[human rights] close to home, we shall look invain to progress in the larger world," she said...