Word: sadnesses
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...Centuries of philosophical arguments about free will are now twisted like that DNA strand. Are you truly free to be a size 6 if gluttony is in your genes? The nature-vs.-nurture debate changes when scientists find a gene that makes you shy, makes you reckless, makes you sad. For families haunted by generations of loss to cystic fibrosis and Tay-Sachs disease and sickle-cell anemia, prenatal testing may spare them a future as painful as the past. But if we can screen embryos for curses, should we also screen for gifts? Do you want to know...
...Louis Pepe, who signed on to do a nice little Making of...documentary, found themselves with an Unmaking of...epic on their hands. It will fascinate and possibly even delight cinephiles. Who does not enjoy gawking at accidents, particularly those in which there are no fatalities and the sad story unfolds in almost slow-motion clarity? The film, however, is not likely to prove cautionary for other filmmakers. There was no shortage of Sancho Panzas on this shoot. But in show biz, the one-eyed visionary is always (or until it's too late) king. His fellow adventurers' realism...
...Caveat emptor: pages 26 and 27 have been transposed in the printing, a fact you take for granted given topsy turvy nature of this work.) The Fellini-esque fantasy of a woman in the food court whose reality creates disturbing parallels in her dream world, "Eros" has a funny-sad sensibility that typifies these stories...
Emily: That is a very sad story...
...places and speaking with the people who live amidst a particular conflict on a day-to-day basis, one can gain an understanding of a situation that is nuanced enough to step outside those ideological boxes. Suddenly, a bombing at a Tel Aviv bus station is not just a sad event that happened halfway around the world, it is a tragedy that occurred on my last night in Israel—as horrific and real as the news that the World Trade Center had been attacked. Although I didn’t come away with a more informed opinion...