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The View Finder: August 2009
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Reviews, ruminations, and commentary on books, movies, and language. Thursday, August 27, 2009. At the end of Joe Wright’s 2005 Pride and Prejudice. 8212;in which he turns Jane Austen into Charlotte Brontë but nobody seems to mind—Lizzie tells her newly-wedded Darcy that he should call her “Mrs. Darcy” only when he is “completely and perfectly and incandescently happy”. Incandescently. The word doesn’t appear in Austen’s text. This is easy to imagine, since incandescent. Is more commonly used in French?
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The View Finder: I've Moved
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Reviews, ruminations, and commentary on books, movies, and language. Wednesday, December 15, 2010. And so, over at The Museum Game. I'm trying to post frequently about the things that make an impression on me and that make me wonder- not just during museum visits but during each day. Sometimes it'll be a quotation from what I'm reading. Sometimes it'll be a response to what I've seen in the news. Other times, it might be something I've caught sight of as I'm driving by. Come check it out. Up in the Air.
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The View Finder: Laces Tied
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Reviews, ruminations, and commentary on books, movies, and language. Monday, August 16, 2010. A few years ago, I wrote something up to explain why I cherish these strange words, and why it would never occur to me not to use them, if I had the choice. Here’s that piece, dated by the ages of the children, but still true in many ways. 8217;” he scoffs. “Why can’t you just say ‘Get the boat’? My family grants me this, though they balk at “weigh enough” which, for them, conjures up images of Admir...Aguirre, ...
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The View Finder: February 2009
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Reviews, ruminations, and commentary on books, movies, and language. Wednesday, February 25, 2009. Last Chance Harvey: Thompson's Do-Over? To paraphrase Jane Austen, it should be a truth generally acknowledged that Emma Thompson can Do No Wrong. Whether hidden under layers of disfiguring make-up in Nanny McPhee. Or beneath a ridiculous mop of hair in one of the Harry Potter. Movies, or even as a thinly-veiled Hilary Clinton in Primary Colors. Thompson’s performance in Last Chance Harvey. She escapes to h...
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The View Finder: August 2010
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Reviews, ruminations, and commentary on books, movies, and language. Thursday, August 26, 2010. The Found Art of Getting Lost in an e-Book. The pros and cons of e-books have been enumerated and discussed frequently enough in the press lately that anyone who thinks reading is on the decline in this country (former NEA chairman Dana Gioia. Among them) should think again. Unless it turns out that all we ever read are reviews of e-readers. Last night, I was reading Simon Mawer's 2002 novel The Fall. A note t...
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The View Finder: November 2009
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Reviews, ruminations, and commentary on books, movies, and language. Tuesday, November 17, 2009. Read below, or listen here. Among all the blunders and worse committed by the military in the prosecution of the Great War, the manner of its ending might have been one more. Might a few more lives have been saved if the German, French, and British leaders had met at Compiégne on even November 10th or 9th? Pat Barker’s Regeneration. The Eye in the Door. Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong. Sunday, November 15, 2009.
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The View Finder: April 2010
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Reviews, ruminations, and commentary on books, movies, and language. Friday, April 16, 2010. From the Mixed-Up Files to the Midnight Library. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. The library was a lovely place for me during the day, but at night, in a flashlight’s beam, it became magical: the books at rest, their stories and information seeming almost to breathe deeply in the silence of the space, the shadows gliding over the shelves, the chairs, the balconies as time passed. I’ve ...
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The View Finder: June 2009
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Reviews, ruminations, and commentary on books, movies, and language. Saturday, June 13, 2009. Free Association Reviewing: The Bourne Identity. The DVD of The International. Is now out (my review coming soon), which leads me to think of its director, Tom Tykwer, which makes me thing of his earlier film, Run Lola Run. Which makes me think of its redhaired star, Franka Potente, which makes me think of another film she appears in in which red again plays a prominent role: The Bourne Identity. Located near th...
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The View Finder: The Found Art of Getting Lost in an e-Book
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Reviews, ruminations, and commentary on books, movies, and language. Thursday, August 26, 2010. The Found Art of Getting Lost in an e-Book. The pros and cons of e-books have been enumerated and discussed frequently enough in the press lately that anyone who thinks reading is on the decline in this country (former NEA chairman Dana Gioia. Among them) should think again. Unless it turns out that all we ever read are reviews of e-readers. Last night, I was reading Simon Mawer's 2002 novel The Fall. A note t...
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The View Finder: December 2010
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Reviews, ruminations, and commentary on books, movies, and language. Wednesday, December 15, 2010. And so, over at The Museum Game. I'm trying to post frequently about the things that make an impression on me and that make me wonder- not just during museum visits but during each day. Sometimes it'll be a quotation from what I'm reading. Sometimes it'll be a response to what I've seen in the news. Other times, it might be something I've caught sight of as I'm driving by. Come check it out. Up in the Air.