Word: fools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black people probably thought he didn't like them. The unexpected admission and the apparent sincerity were disconcerting. Students in the audience, scrambling to preserve the bogeyman image, come up with tortuous explanations. All this humble business was a big show, they said. Nixon's just trying to fool...
Charly is an odd little movie about mental retardation and the dangers of all-conquering science, done with a dash of whimsy. It sounds like an impossible combination, and in fact it is. Cliff Robertson plays the hero, a mugging, clowning, saintly fool so retarded mentally that he cannot write his own name correctly. He agrees to a brain operation that will spark his intelligence. Almost overnight, Charly is transformed into a debonair, Shakespeare-quoting sage who knocks off philosophy, calculus and microbiology with dazzling ease. Yet the experiment has a hitch: Charly has fallen in love with his teacher...
...does some Anthony Newley-Leslie Bricusse numbers, ignoring the cliches ("What Kind of Fool Am I," for example) for, among others, a pulsating "Nothing Can Stop Me Now." When he gets around to Frank Loesser, he follows the standard "I'll Know" with "Somebody Somewhere," a Loesser masterpiece of understated beauty (from the forgotten Most Happy Fella) that nobody ever sings...
LIGHT is billed as the opening of M.I.T.'s permanent collection of photographs, but don't let that fool you. These aren't the "classic" photographs by the "great" photographers that you would expect in a university collection. The exhibit doesn't try to provide a history of the development of photography, either. It's one person's idea of good photographs, some by well-known photographers, but most by people you've never heard...
...gets easier and easier to fool yourself. We all teach our eyes to lie to us about what they see. But ink isn't oil, paper isn't canvas, a dollar-fifty print isn't Rembrandt. Sometimes it seems worth it to care about what is real. And it will grow on you by January...