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...Although such exploration does interest him, Morris is quick to point out that he doesn't see himself as more enlightened than Fred, or any of the people (he calls them characters) he interviews. "I don't think I'm any less self-deceived than the next guy," he chuckles. "I don't think that I'm better than my characters, or different than my characters, or in some odd, privileged position from my characters. I think I'm one of them...
...this way, Morris says, "Mr. Death" can be seen as a companion piece to "The Thin Blue Line." Although both are "essays in false history," "in the case of Mr. Death it's a false history shared by very few people. In the case of "The Thin Blue Line," everybody believed the insane stuff. Could the Dallas police really have believed that Randall Adams was guilty...
...Crimson will also need a strong offensive showing against the tight St. Lawrence defense. Although Harvard is fifth in the league with 3.18 goals scored per game, its scoring has tapered off since winter break...
...artists, oblivious to the age disparity, created an overall tremendous show. Admittedly, with seven big name performers, including Enrique Iglesias, Jewel and Smash Mouth, it would be hard to go wrong. Although each performer had only about half an hour to wow the crowd, most of them managed quite well. For most of the night, the energy was high and the crowd was on their feet...
Schama's heavy tome, some of whose content the author originally delivered as lectures at Harvard, makes every attempt to be a definitive work on the painter, and it succeeds. First and foremost it is a narrative of the life and work of Rembrandt van Rijn, although calling it a "biography" somehow sounds reductive. It is equal parts analysis of Rembrandt's painting, documentation of his life and history of 17th century Holland, so sections of the book can be read with profit by anyone studying the artist, his art or the social history of the times...