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...films delight in breaking their expensive toys), often rude (when comedies exult in wisecracks and flatulence) and, once in a while, awestruck by the splendor of the imagination. Films that aim honorably at evoking childlike wonder are so rare, so vulnerable, that one wants to clap three times and shout, as kids do seeing Peter Pan, "I do believe in fairies! I do, I do!"--until the drab reality of a botched movie shakes an audience to its senses...
...cool, and a must for anyone hoping for a career beyond France's borders. So the French establishment is fighting back in the way it knows best - with passionate denunciations that deny reality rather than adapt to it. That's why teachers, unions and legislators are trying to shout down the government-sponsored report recommending that English be compulsory in schools for ages...
...spontaneity of the celebration, though, and the man whom I overheard waxing nostalgic about college, suggests that young people are predisposed to this sort of gathering and shouting. I cannot explain, really, what compelled us to cross Mass. Ave. into Harvard Yard, or what compelled us to convene in the Square; I cannot explain what compelled us to shout, full-throated and earnest, about the victory of a team I frankly dislike. There may have been a sort of mass hypnosis at work—the sort of workaday hypnosis often wrought by alcohol and lots and lots of young...
...good week. That was before CNN's Crossfire invited on JON STEWART, below left, of Comedy Central's The Daily Show. Hosts Paul Begala and TUCKER CARLSON, below right, expected some light yuks but got a pointed lecture when the fake news anchor likened their political shout-a-thon to "pro wrestling." There followed one of the most uncomfortable talk-TV showdowns since Harvey Pekar did David Letterman. The audience laughed and applauded as Stewart called the stunned hosts "partisan hacks" who were "hurting America" by dumbing down the political discourse. Carlson countered that Stewart had acted like Senator John...
...like to give a huge shout out to my roommates for putting up with all the commotion this week and also to [Eliot House Co-Master] Lino Pertile and [Assistant to the Co-Masters] Sue Weltman for letting the coach stay in the Matthiessen Room,” Davies said...