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...Truthfully, like most, I won’t remember much of what I learned in my classes. I can say, however, that I leave here with a rejuvenated sense of what is important in the world, and a heightened appreciation of the mystery, splendor??and as on Lake Quinsigamond—disappointment inherent in life’s unfolding. I’m pretty sure that this isn’t what Harvard set out to teach me, and I know that it isn’t what I set out to learn when I first arrived here...
...There’s no harm / There’s no harm / There’s no harm done”) but the circles shift sufficiently to make the songs interesting. Slow harmonic builds like the one at the end of “Sleep in Splendor?? are what redeem this disc from the oblivion of sonorous boredom. And thank goodness that almost midway through the disc, the rolling guitar of “Rise” hits. The song, which boasts a loosely trotting chorus that hints at Spanish guitar and dusty Western dreams, exemplifies Calla?...
...most refreshing films of the year, American Splendor skillfully manipulates the medium of film in the same way last year’s Adaptation toyed with the basic structures of the screenplay. Splendor??s foundation is the life of chronically cantankerous graphic artist Harvey Pekar, whose series of autobiographic comic books in the ’70s and ’80s captured the innate complexities of a simple existence and ultimately revolutionized the comic book industry. These books had a number of different illustrators, and the varying styles are translated by directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert...
...most refreshing films of the year, American Splendor skillfully manipulates the medium of film in the same way last year’s Adaptation toyed with the basic structures of the screenplay. Splendor??s foundation is the life of chronically cantankerous graphic artist Harvey Pekar, whose series of autobiographic comic books in the ’70s and ’80s captured the innate complexities of a simple existence and ultimately revolutionized the comic book industry. These books had a number of different illustrators, and the varying styles are translated by directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert...
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