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...film noir that’s too small for its britches: it may be cloaked in the finest material, but it is also drowning beneath the folds. While audiences will be captivated by the film’s languid, shadowy images and tortured characters, the overall effect is diluted by excessive length (158 minutes) and lack of development. Taiwanese director Ang Lee, known for “Brokeback Mountain” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” adapts Chinese author Eileen Chang’s eponymous short story with exquisite artistic balance, but the film?...
...engaging completely independent of their origin.“Pollock Matters” is exactly what a show at a college museum should be. Its investigative nature and interdisciplinary approach beautifully fulfill the aims of a research institution, in this instance exploring contemporary questions in modern art to great effect.—Staff writer Anna K. Barnet can be reached at abarnet@fas.harvard.edu...
...long and enthusiastic descriptions of the zoo’s animal and plant life. These passages are gorgeously written and reveal extensive knowledge, and Antonina’s status as a zookeeper’s wife renders them less irrelevant than they would otherwise be. Still, the overall effect is to make parts of the book read less like an historical narrative and more like a farmer’s almanac; it reads as though Ackerman ripped entries out of her personal field journal and pasted them into the book alongside Antonina’s diary. The book?...
...world is getting warmer and that humankind is causing it, Lomborg's not too worried. Endangered polar bears? He insists that they're actually thriving. Rising sea levels swamping coastal cities? Lomborg argues that floods won't be biblical and that man-made defenses will be sufficient. The main effect of global warming, he writes, may be that "we just notice people wearing slightly fewer layers of winter clothes on a winter's evening...
...interviews yesterday, several Kennedy School of Government (KSG) faculty members said the proposal might not have the intended effect of getting money to those who need...