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...overused direct-camera-address device to thoughtful (if a bit precious) use. But to realize the show's potential, the creators must end the honeymoon--between the viewers and the characters. thirtysomething's strength lay in its shifting sympathies for the self-absorbed Steadmans, whom we stuck with through sheer exasperation. You have to love Once and Again; it will be a great show only if it gets us to do so in spite of ourselves...
...lest you think that in their old age R.E.M. may show signs of slowing down, think again. New song "The Great Beyond" from the upcoming Andy Kaufman movie Man On The Moon rang with sheer cinematic beauty and youthful optimism. Early '90s tracks like "Find The River" and "Sweetness Follows" were brooding, tear-inducing and gorgeous. And their positively manic and explosive finale of "It's The End Of The World As We Know It" had more energy than a bawitdaba and a nookie combined...
...course, in today's university, rarely does a lecturer's style, or his charisma, motivate students to enroll in his class. Especially at Harvard, with our rigid Core Curriculum and concentration requirements, students oftentimes enroll in courses out of sheer necessity. They actually choose to attend the lectures only to collect the material that will allow them to pass...
Part of the answer, paradoxically, may lie in the way the film shamelessly, even joyously, keeps piling on that familiar material. At some point the sheer mass of it simply overwhelms dubiety. The fact that everything that happens in the movie comes as a surprise to its participants helps too. They apparently have not seen all the movies or read all the books about adolescent angst. So their responses are fresh. And felt...
...family who lives most in the moment, as we are told in poems to do--to gather rosebuds while we may and treasure the hour of splendor in the grass and prove the pleasures that this brief summer yields. Hers is the age of sheer delight, and among her dog pals and wading pools and her books and my risotto, she is gathering rosebuds left and right...