As an SAT tutor, I am constantly trying to explain why answer choice (A) is plainly, if subtly, superior to answer choice (C). Two years ago, in one of the most concentrated bursts of deadly violence Boston had seen in years, nine victims were killed in 20 days. Fifty years ago this fall, a Boston team beat the Yankees in the World Series.
In raising more than $20 million over the first three months of this year, Mitt Romney showed a special touch with the fairer sex. There is a time and a place for “judicial activism,” no matter what so-called conservatives say. Matt Taibbi wonders (rhetorically, of course) “why black athletes hate playing in this town,” in his most recent “Sports Blotter” column.
A few hours after the Massachusetts SJC upheld his 2005 triumph in a libel case against the Boston Herald, Superior Court judge Ernest Murphy waxed dramatic. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is one of those broad-based, high-minded, outfits that drive the Bush White House crazy. In this posthumous release from writer/director/actress Adrienne Shelly, Andy Griffith is still presiding over small-town America.
Starting with the early shot of bloody footsteps in the snow, Hilary Brougher shows herself the master of the self-consciously telling detail. As far as Dead White Males go, Homer ranks as grandfather to them all. Dogme is out, done for, as are Lars von Trier’s sly strictures on making Dogme films: only natural lighting, the actors must wear their real clothes, etc.
Like basketball, hip-hop offers a way out of the inner-city cycle of violence and poverty. We’ve come a long way from Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Red, in which a retired judge falls into disgrace for listening in on his neighbors.
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