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...latest book, Scorsese By Ebert, Ebert says that first feature film flagged Scorsese as a director to watch: "This film had a quality that sent tingles up my arms. It felt made out of my dreams and guilts ... Everything about that movie stabbed me in the heart and soul. I had seen great films, I had in truth seen greater films, but never one that so touched me. Perhaps it was because of that experience that I became a film critic, instead of simply working...
...tickets. And it's there, on the crux of that paradox, that the movie becomes Scorsese's metaphor for so many modern lives. ... He simply uses organized crime as an arena for a story about a man who likes material things so much that he sells his own soul to buy them...
...Raymond with remarkable ease, imbuing his alter ego with a slightly paranoid sensibility and anxious vulnerability that grounds his situation and the science-fiction component of the narrative in a believable reality. As Raymond reads what is essentially his own death-sentence—“Your soul has spontaneously combusted”—his reaction in all its heightened emotionality is disturbingly relatable, as it provokes viewers to question their own legitimacy as human beings. Likewise, Cutmore-Scott brings to his role of Mr. Hand a certain unsettling charm that lends the play its suspenseful tension...
...said audience member Benjamin A. Lerner ’11. “I thought Professor Pinker’s arguments were a little more precise.” Though no conclusion was reached, the debate did spur discussion of rarely-broached topics. “The soul as a separate entity from the body is something that not too many people outside religious circles speak about these days,” Wolpe said...
...Four years later, Obama has returned to the field where he redrew the lines. He has gone back to promising politics that does not scorch the earth and scar the soul. It's idealistic to the point of corny, except that, especially now, you get the feeling that the reason he's drawing crowds of 50,000, 75,000, 100,000 - even in purple and red states - is that people want to see what Different might look like. McCain and Palin tried to build fences, looking for safe ground; Obama bulldozed them in search of common ground. "Despite what...