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...will miss his sharp intelligence, his delightful wit, and his broad understanding of times past and present,” Faust said of her fellow historian...
...because of its age and its location, not because it offers fabulous classes like “Dinosaurs and Their Relatives” and “Wit and Humor,” but because Harvard afforded me the opportunity to pursue an academic path as random as baseball. And because Harvard gave me all the tools to find that path in the first place...
...rendered plausible by Apatow's shrewd observations of the people in their lives. Indeed, one of the real pleasures of this movie is derived from the fact that Apatow writes his minor characters - a TV host, a wardrobe mistress, a slyly envious production executive - with the same care and wit as he does his major figures...
...When Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor of French Elle, suffered a stroke at the age of 42, he was rendered totally immobile except for his left eyelid. His condition, "locked-in syndrome," left his memory and sharp wit unimpeded, but Bauby had no way to communicate, and felt like a man in a diving bell, the captive of his enclosure, instead of a butterfly, with the blessed freedom of movement. He eventually learned to "talk" by the tortuously slow process of listening to his therapist run through the alphabet and blinking when she spoke the right letter...
...that kind as it probably is to read it, since some close variant of it could be written week-in, week-out every summer movie season. It's tempting to conclude with a joke about the title: Maybe they should have called it Pirates of the Caribbean: At Wit's End. But no, in the movie's epilogue Jack Sparrow is seen setting forth in a dinghy, chasing his pirate ship, which has been mysteriously purloined. It is, shall we say, an open-ended ending. God help us, we silently whimper. You mean they're leaving the door open...