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...these directors, the most deservedly sought-after is Mark Romanek. An master of lighting and color effects, Romanek frequently takes an askew approach to his subjects’ celebrity to warp his audiences’ preconceptions. In Fiona Apple’s “Criminal,” he takes the barely legal sensuality of the singer and sullies it in decidedly illicit ways, and in the highly regarded “Hurt,” he lays out the iconic legend of Johnny Cash in flashes of archival footage until offering the ailing singer at his most vulnerable...
...Master of the Senate, Caro follows Johnson’s career through his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the U.S. Senate, along the way elucidating how legislative power works in America. “Nothing in LBJ’s career was more important than his rise to power in the Senate,” Caro explains...
Stephen A. Mitchell is Harvard’s resident expert on witchcraft and the supernatural. The former master of Eliot House and current head of the Folklore and Mythology concentration, he’s equally comfortable teaching classes on witchcraft, expounding on Vikings and bashing Hillary Clinton...
Spooky walks through old barns—our neighbors made them up when I was a kid, and, I’m happy to say, friends and neighbors in our town still set them up for the children. Oh, and when I was first House master, my then-5-year-old daughter helped decorate our residence for a Halloween open house, and she took enormous delight in the idea that what she was doing was going to scare the undergraduates. I think it really helped her get hold of her own fears about the holiday...
Caro is widely considered the authority on Johnson, having completed the first three volumes of a projected four-part series entitled The Years of Lyndon Johnson. The latest installment, Master of the Senate, won Caro the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Biography...