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...even if it's different from Roald Dahl's children's story about a fox clever enough to outwit three mean farmers named Boggis, Bunce and Bean, one fat, one short, one lean (no one can say that just once). Dahl's spirit is there, but the cinematic Fantastic Mr. Fox comes fortified with Andersonian pouting, parental issues, self doubt and philosophical conundrums. "Who am I, Kylie?" Mr. Fox (voiced by George Clooney) muses to the sidekick Anderson has created for him, an opossum voiced by Wally Wolodarksy - then clarifies: "I'm saying this as an existential question." (Read about...
...CONTAGIOUS SPIRIT...
...Department of Culture could provide jobs to thousands of Americans. As it does in most other advanced democracies, it need not promote any specific artists, but rather serve as an economic engine and revitalize the national spirit broadly. The department could directly invest in arts education, museums, libraries, public radio, and public television. It could create special task forces—for example, a young “artist corps” for low-income schools and neighborhoods, an original Obama campaign idea. It could establish federal writing projects to promote cultural literacy and historical memory. As a bonus, culture...
...crises, The Count muses that “all over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams and put those dreams into song.” While at times overly sentimental, “Pirate Radio” and its sprawling soundtrack capture the freewheeling spirit of a transformational...
There's no direct translation into Chinese of the phrase can-do spirit. But yong wang zhi qian probably suffices. Literally, it means "march forward courageously." China has - and has had for years now - a can-do spirit that's unmistakable. Americans know the phrase well. They invented it. It used to define them...