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Lying awake that night, I was reminded of a conversation I'd had with Hal Wain, a psychologist at Walter Reed. I had sought him out a few months earlier to discuss why I had grabbed the grenade. Wain said I had one overriding objective: self-preservation. "That's what all heroes are made of," he said. "I have learned from guys coming back that the instinct to survive, the instinct to take care of oneself or others, is incredibly potent. I really don't care if you did it for your needs or for others...
...Wain defined heroism as quick response to a changing environment, like a driver who swerves into another lane for the purpose of avoiding an oncoming car and, in the process, saves the life of his passenger. "That wasn't his intent," he said. "But being flexible and shifting is a higher level of intelligence. The people who can't change...
Showalter’s film succeeds because of its irresistible charm and quirkiness. The true credit to the film is the acting; many of Showalter’s former cast members (David Wain, Michael Ian Black, Elizabeth Banks, and Paul Rudd just to mention a few) of “Wet Hot American Summer” return for “The Baxter.” Michelle Williams has left her “Dawson’s Creek” days far behind, believable as awkward and loveable Cecil Mills. Justin Theroux, bizarre and oh-so-spooky...
...curate a major show at the Grand Palais. As a teenager in exile from Germany in 1939, Freud attended art school near Constable's birthplace in Suffolk, although that didn't make him an admirer. He was all too familiar with Constable's most famous painting, The Hay Wain, because "it was everywhere in England, on tablecloths, on beer coasters ..." Disdain turned to admiration only after Freud saw Constable's small, closeup painting of a tree trunk - and tried to do one himself: "It was a catastrophe." Appropriately, Freud opens the show with Constable's tree trunk, followed by some...
Harvard let its defensize intensity wain for a couple shifts early in the third period, and it cost the Crimson a shot at the national titile...