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...same critical perspective to the ostensibly mundane. By casting light on the complexities of simple situations, Hartwig compels us to wonder how many times we have performed everyday acts without noticing the underlying implications. In “Philemon and Baucis,” a short poem about a woman getting out of bed to get a drink of water, the man beside her wakes because of her shuffling. At first he’s irritated, then worried that his wife is no longer with him: “Suddenly his hair stands on end. / Is this shuffling real...
...plain prose. For example, Alex Gregory, a cartoonist for The New Yorker, contributes two brilliant cartoons about situations in which technology has harmed relationships. David Wain, co-writer of “Wet Hot American Summer,” offers a script about a guy trying to date a woman who keeps blowing him off. Tom McCarthy, an actor and writer who has appeared in movies like “Meet The Parents,” delivers one of the most touching chapters. It consists of his belated response to letters sent by a girl twenty-five years...
...life. Academy Award-winning actress Frances McDormand skillfully captures Miss Pettigrew’s understated wisdom. She speaks sparingly, but when she does, she says something either charmingly clumsy or surprisingly perceptive. Sometimes the sheer absurdity of her situation makes you laugh, but not without regrets—this woman has suffered in life and teeters on the brink of poverty, but she gets the chance to live again in the course of a single day. The movie’s production values work well together, creating a nice backdrop for the main action of the film. The costumes...
...This was followed by a coda intended to provoke: “Wait, hold the phone, she’s black? And a woman? Oh, nevermind then...
...Yorker article quoted the former president of Stanford as saying of the decision to hire former provost Condoleezza Rice that, “it would be disingenuous for me to say that the fact that she was a woman, the fact that she was black…weren’t in my mind. They were...