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...nature of illness, the impact of history on the present, and the need to create fantasies and art. David B. seems to have total recall of what it was like growing up with a stigmatized brother, providing a fascinatingly detailed account of parents who try everything, including a stint at a macrobiotic commune, to cure their son. But the illness only serves as the thread around which the author weaves his other themes, illustrated in extraordinary black and white drawings that give form to ghosts and demons as much as real people. Deeply moving, stunning to look...
...path from graduation to his current stint as host of CNBC’s hit show “Mad Money” was one of extremes...
...After a stint as a lecturer at MIT and publishing an acclaimed translation of Heidegger’s “Vom Wesen des Grundes,” Malick earned an MFA at the American Film Institute Conservatory and directed his first film, a comedy short about two bank-robbing cowboys called “Lanton Mills.” He simultaneously worked as a writer and script doctor on several large-scale productions before setting out on his own as a director, disillusioned with Hollywood studio employment...
...entire career. It’s a charge he seems to embrace.BEING JOHN SIMONIt’s hard work becoming a snob. Simon left his native Yugoslavia as a boy, exploring theater during grade school in England and the United States. He organized one play during a brief stint of “very undistinguished service” at an Air Force professional school, but lacked cooperative actors. “The ones around me wanted to do as little as possible,” he recalls. “In fact, to do nothing.”At college...
...things don’t change), I learned from my editors and from my news-comping, soon-to-be-blockmate. Amit R. Paley ’04 taught me how to make an FTM work and how to stand up to a source. When I did a research assistant stint for Parker R. Conrad ’02-’03, he treated me like someone who deserved to hear his thoughts about where his scrutiny was going. I knew nothing about the administration, about preregistration, about how university politics worked—but boy, did I learn fast...