Word: greate
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...what a strange story one guest had to tell---of a great public intellectual, a Jew and survivor of Nazi death camps, who eventually became friends, long after the war, with a powerful French politician. They discussed literature, philosophy, metaphysics. Then late in the politician's life it came out that for a time during the Second World War the politician had worked in the Vichy government. It came out he had been a friend of a monstrous collaborator with the blood of many French Jews on his hands...
...decided that a presidential campaign is really not a place where great ideas and great issues can be best advanced...
...Harris' great performance has a kind of blank grimness; it contains not a single moment of charm or self-awareness. Harris never allows his exhibitions of Pollock's inexplicable gift to soften or redeem the man's monstrousness. The result is a harrowing film, impossible to "like" in any conventional way, hypnotically impossible to turn away from...
...ballot, changed his mind and stopped. The situation is much like the classic movie scene in which the good guy faces the cornered villain and the dilemma of whether to shoot. The hero slowly pulls back the trigger to within a nano-inch of firing, hesitates--and stops. Makes great fiction, but do we really believe that happened thousands of times in Florida? DREW SUNDBERG Brussels...
...Less-Spoiled Spoiled White Guy b Hottest First Daughters Ever c I'll Look Great on Money d Fighting...