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The pattern of duplicity has a likely source. Israel is the scion of a prominent New Orleans family that founded a successful commodities trading firm. Throughout his life, he has consistently fallen short in his attempts to live up to that legacy, and consistently tried to make up for the...
Goya is often said to have wondered if people would remember him. "Well," says Symmons, "he died in 1828, and he's even more controversial now than he was then." For geniuses worried about their legacies, controversy isn't always a bad thing.
Remember, these are the people whose critical enthusiasm raised Alfred Hitchcock from genre master to world master. Indeed, you could argue that Tell No One is a variant on one of Hitchcock's favorite themes: the running man whose story no one (except us in the audience) believes. These fictions...
Conservatives know America isn't perfect, of course. But they grade on a curve. Partly that's because they generally take a dimmer view of human nature than do their counterparts on the left. When evaluating America, they're more likely to remember that for most of human history, tyranny...
Re "mile-high club": after an aircraft accident, decisions must be made in seconds [June 23]. Do you think a flight attendant would choose to save a passenger with an attitude or someone respectful? Remember that while we are there to serve you, first and foremost, we're there to...