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...that was a very long time ago. I'm sure the count stands at over 50 now. I'm not sure it's the most significant film in my canon, but it's a big one, like "Citizen Kane" or "Vertigo" or "Taxi Driver" or "La Dolce Vita." "Kong" was the first film to which I ever gave a close reading, in the narrowest technical sense. Seeing the film as often as I did made it possible for me to examine each contribution in depth - fortunately, it's an unusually rich film in every category. Understanding the pieces of "Kong...
...important and noble causes, it seems strange to me that no one is marching to protest about poor foster care. Children are being neglected, abused and murdered by those who are "chosen" to protect and love them. Why isn't anyone fighting to be their voice? TERESA DI VITA-GEREMIA Tuckahoe...
Those who know him agree. "David sees to it that there are no communication gaps," says longtime business associate Sunil Gambers, director of Sunil Gambers Laboratories in Bombay, a company Dichter matched up with Vita Laboratories in the Republic of Georgia for an herbal-medicine venture. "He will go out of his way to see to it that a project he has undertaken gets positive results...
Reverse Seneca's famous maxim--Ars longa, vita brevis--and you come up with a pretty fair description of many big, fat, fact-crammed current biographies: life is long, art short. Such narrative behemoths can, of course, contain much of value, particularly for readers who are passionately curious about the subjects. Admirers of Mary McCarthy, for example, would not wish Frances Kiernan's recent, well-received Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy any shorter than its 768 pages. But what of those who are interested in learning more about the life of a notable person but unwilling...
...worn like scapulars: The child-cult of the Boy on the Dolphin and of his mother, the Drowned Madonna. Visions of Freedom for the boy, or of honorable Martyrdom earned in saving him from Going Back. The dream looked something like the early scenes of "La Dolce Vita...