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...code-cracking biography, the kind that lays bare the man and his motivations. George, Being George does the trick, in part by borrowing the form of Plimpton's own biographies of Capote and Edie Sedgwick (Jean Stein's Edie: American Girl, which he edited). Recognizing that Plimpton's spirit would suffocate under the weight of analytic prose, editor Nelson Aldrich Jr. interviewed more than 200 verbally dexterous Plimpton associates--from Norman Mailer (adoring) and Gay Talese (brutally adoring) to the Plimptons' nanny--and constructed a narrative out of their most entertaining paragraphs. It's biography as cocktail party...
Despite the charged nature of American foreign policy in the Middle East, last night’s debate at Harvard Hillel proved to be a “spirit of conversation” between representatives of each presidential nominee, according to Harvard Hillel’s executive director Bernie Steinberg...
...quiet leer and uneasy smile. As is the danger with a film that draws from real life, “Changeling” follows the template of Collins’s true story far too literally. Some scenes that loyally adhere to actual events detract from the overall spirit of the movie. Though most of the film’s questions are answered two-thirds of the way through, it continues to roll with an impatience for finality and a self-conscious pace that the audience feels. Eastwood, however, does know how to milk a climactic scene...
...armed with kitchen knives for those who refuse to stop smoking “despite repeated requests.” The repression of smokers and, transitively, the repression of dissenting individuals in society is ultimately shown to have terrible consequences.The toll of this draconian suppression of the human spirit can be seen in the growing indifference of Tsutsui’s characters. In “Hello, Hello, Hello!” a “Household Economy Consultant” shows up at the narrator’s door, reminding the narrator and his family to save money whenever...
...Keefe all fill the walls with their ineffable essence. Karsh’s big break came in 1941, with the iconic photo he took of Winston Churchill during one of the former Prime Minister’s visits to Canada. Churchill gazes sternly out of the print. His unrelenting spirit leaps from the image in the lines of his face, in the powerful position of his stance, one hand on his hip, the other on his cane. The radiant suggestion of a halo playing about his head is a perfect example of Karsh’s use of light: most...