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...Cannes aside, Moretti has spent much of the past five years denouncing the very man whose presence inspired his film. Il Caimano debuted in March amid Berlusconi's bitter campaign against Romano Prodi. Although Moretti says he had no Michael Moore-style mission, there's no denying the singular timing. Il Caimano is not Moretti's first political film, but his anti-Berlusconi sentiments run so deep that for the first time he has left no ambiguity on - or off - the screen about where he stands. In February 2002, less than a year after the former Prime Minister's final...
...problem is that in fiction, let alone life, the singular self does matter. Trying to make a Jersey boy who shares Roth's cultural background and birth year (1933) into an archetype, effacing his individuality, inhibits the reader from feeling the protagonist's loss emotionally, rather than just intellectually. (And denying him a name creates pronoun confusion whenever "he" talks to another man.) That Everyman's hero dies is universal. How he dies is not: he is alone, isolated from his brother, sons and ex-wives because of his traits and choices--often selfish, childish ones--but Roth has sketched...
...wanted to learn how to throw a curveball. Uncle Charlie, the deuce, number two, the hook. It goes by many names but is singular in its appeal—the prettiest pitch in baseball, with its tantalizing slowness and sharp downward break...
...dare denounce Opal Mehta? I refer, of course, to “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” the recently published chick-lit novel by sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 that first became famous for its singular inception, and then infamous for its not-so-singular authorship. The book’s merits and demerits aside, it is, in many respects, a product of Harvard and a reflection of our community...
...apparent downsizing, we should remember that this master thinker is too smart not to appreciate the singular power of his new office or the importance of John Paul?s legacy. Benedict does not want to toss away the hard-won leap in relevance for the papacy achieved by his predecessor: for unifying and purifying the Church, for preaching to the world, and for inspiring the masses. In this day and age, a strictly cerebral Pope, or administrator Pope, would waste much of what can be accomplished from this unique public perch. At the same time, a merely made-for-media...