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...Linklater (Dazed and Confused, School of Rock) usually sticks to contemporary stories, or ones set in the recent past. (An exception, The Newton Boys, a 1920s-set western, was his least memorable film.) Nothing about Me and Orson Welles suggests a directorial affinity for period pieces. When a vintage ambulance pulls up to transport Welles around Manhattan, you half expect the prop master to pop out and buff the hood with pride. But Linklater's great strength lies in showing how "families" form in unexpected places, especially when it's a question of putting on a show. Here...
...Johnson is a certified minister, and he preaches on the second Sunday of every month at the Western Avenue Baptist Church, an African-American church that’s about an eight minute walk from Mather House. His services regularly draw a crowd of black Harvard Christians, he said...
Dudnik said she hopes the resources her organization provides will allow scientists traditionally wanting for equipment to focus on local problems often overlooked by western researchers...
...good art” is always something of a dice toss. For proof, the Pope would simply have had to look up. Michelangelo’s altar fresco “The Last Judgment,” a fundamental background work in any study of western art history, loomed over Saturday’s proceedings as the literal backdrop for Benedict’s welcoming speech. Yet during the heady days of mid-17th century Italy, around the same time that Galileo had his feet held to the fire for his dangerously newfangled Copernican views, Michelangelo was accused of creating...
...demonstration against a proposed petrochemical facility near Chengdu in 2008. "They are generally directed more toward proposed projects that they think may have an impact to health or property values," he says. "These are classic 'not in my backyard' protests that you see happen in developed western countries." And with few effective avenues for people to voice their complaints about the ambitious industrial projects springing up around the country, McElwee says, they "will continue to happen, I think, with increasing frequency...