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...worthiest Venice entry was A Single Man. The first film directed by renowned fashion designer Tom Ford, it provides Firth, best known as the dreamboat Mr. Darcy in the BBC's 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice, with the role of a lifetime. No less than Lebanon, this is a film of man in extremis, seen in extreme close-up. Firth's professor, disconsolate over the death of his longtime beau in a car crash, meticulously rehearses his own suicide, by gunshot, but can't find a practical or aesthetically elegant way to carry it off. The Southern California setting...
...steely fury--elements Oscar has often rewarded. None would shame the Academy by winning. No Country for Old Men has earned a ton of early awards, so it must be considered the favorite. It's marvelously assured, wonderfully gripping and acted to the hilt. It would be among the worthiest winners of the Best Picture award in the 80 years of Oscar...
...noisy, oversize and full of professional pep, compared to the wan, torporous little things languishing immobile in their beds. So today, when Ocean's Thirteen was the main attraction, many critics anticipated it with pleasure- if only as playtime after a week's homework studying and reporting on the worthiest art films...
Following a very different kind of free-speech controversy last November, Peretz professor of Yiddish literature Ruth R. Wisse wrote in a Crimson op-ed: “Free speech being one of democracy’s dearest privileges, we should use it to protect and honor those worthiest of our esteem.” Wisse’s standard applies nicely to the current debate. Students citing the Constitution to defend every act of obscenity and rabble-rousing on college campuses should show more discretion when deciding what speech is worthy of their esteem...
...that democracy will prevail against even its most determined enemies. This is not a task for Jews only, but for everyone who prefers truth to falsehood, peace to terror. Free speech being one of democracy’s dearest privileges, we should use it to protect and honor those worthiest of our esteem...