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...Movie reviewing is the solitary evaluation of a communal medium. Critics watch films in small screening rooms, or alone on DVD players, then retire in solitude to write up their opinions and insights, to recollect passion in tranquility. Roger does all that; but more than any critic I know, he brings the informed discussion of film out from under the lamp, into daylight. He has used his fame to elevate the conversation, challenging audiences to attend not just to the dramatic and ethical aspects of films but to their visual strategies. (Roger is one of the few film critics...
...Comment, the magazine I edited. He also did an important analysis of the action-film audience's disconnect from narrative - how they would simply ride from one sensational episode to another, without caring about any continuity of narrative or character. When the magazine needed a smart story, Roger would write one. By now TV had made him a star, but he was never a prima donna...
Trivers adamantly maintained that when he did write to Dershowitz, decrying the law professor’s “rationalization of Israeli attacks on Lebanese civilians,” his words did not come at Finkelstein’s behest. Finkelstein himself said that Trivers’ work was too mathematically impenetrable for the two to have much in common, and he confirmed that he did not know the noted biologist personally...
...welcome your advice about the current strengths and challenges of the College, as well as your nominations of colleagues who would be especially well-suited to lead the College beginning this fall. You may write to me in confidence at: mike_smith@harvard.edu...
...Cavemen fails, in other words, it will be because TV failed advertising, not vice versa. But don't write the show off because it came from an ad. That's so simplistic not even a caveman would...