Word: prizes
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...different modes of discourse through which he, as a white South African author, can convey the reality of living in a country that has seen such a rapid shift in power. In the most recent of the eight, Disgrace, Coetzee continues this exploration. Winner of the 1999 Booker Prize, Disgrace articulates the same concern as Coetzees 1990 novel Age of Iron, in which a retired Professor of Latins struggle with cancer is symbolic of the waning force of humanism. Until the 90s, humanism was the primary discourse of white opposition to apartheid. But the tenuous hope Coetzee expresses...
...people who have a tendency to answer questions with questions and to think not inside or outside the box as much as about the box itself. The intellectual may not get the recruiting job or the place in the U.S. Senate, but he or she may win a MacArthur Prize or be invited to Sweden for a hefty award down the line. Many of you may be recoiling in disgust, but if a good philosophical conversation interests you and you can't find the right conversation partner, then you know what sort of intellectual I mean is missing from Harvard...
...house flick [pi], the story of a psychotic, self-mutilating mathematician who discovers a very big number that holds the secrets of the universe.) Books on mathematics, such as Fermat's Enigma and A Beautiful Mind, the tale of a schizophrenic mathematical economist who wins the Nobel Prize, hit best-seller lists here and abroad. (I came to appreciate the eclectic taste of our friends across the pond when my book The Man Who Loved Only Numbers shared the London Times best-seller list with two titillating biographies of Princess...
...Despite his sometimes enormous success (Interview grossed over $110 million in the US alone), Jordan remains self-effacing about his work, an of course, his Oscar. "Nobody knows who got the Oscar for best script. It's the consolation prize, isn't it? It's the one, they should've given it best picture-'Oh, we'll give him best screenplay.' They remember best actor, don't they, and best picture, that's it. [pauses] They definitely don't remember screenplay...
...world's largest film festival, held every May in Cannes on the French Riviera, also doubles as a more refined Academy Awards. Past winners of the Palme d'Or--Cannes' top prize--have been sex, lies and videotape; Pulp Fiction and Apocalypse Now, all of which were almost completely snubbed when it was time to give out little golden statues in America. It should come as no surprise that Rosetta, this year's controversial winner of the Palm, is being released in the US with little fanfare, and probably to a limited run. It's a shame because films like...