Posted in reseña on July 29, 2007| Leave a Comment »
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I tried to stay off the Norah Jones bandwagon, honest I did.
Down in Costa Rica, trying to live a humble honest-man’s life, feeling deeply for the Latin musicians who were so very, very good but never had a chance to be heard by the big-spending millions because they were three yards off the marketing juggernaut’s path … (more…)
Posted in paterfamilias, reseña on July 29, 2007| 2 Comments »
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My sons will enter separate universities this Autumn. Each will enter as an Army ROTC cadet and—by plan at least—emerge four years later as a college graduate and a commissioned officer in the United States Army. (more…)
Posted in clarity, denkschrift, reseña on July 29, 2007| Leave a Comment »
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This brilliant series of interviews with Robert McNamara should be required viewing for anyone before he or she is authorized to venture an opinion regarding what America should or should not do with its power. I do not begin my review because of any clear sense of the virtue or villainy of Bob McNamara’s legacy as president of the Ford Motor Company, Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and long-time president of the World Bank. (more…)
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Truth be told, classical music–like most other kinds–is best heard in the program context for which it was written. Yet any time you can get Neville Marriner, the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and Mozart in the same place at the same time, you can hardly not go for it. (more…)
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Creed was still getting over the need to be profound when this 1999 release came out, but the results were promising. The band has its best moments when it relaxes. It manages to achieve depth better than than when darkness-cum-wisdom overshadows higher goals. (more…)
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I am unable to review a Jars of Clay album without being positively influenced by the memory of hauling my two sons, their teenage youth group friends, and our dogs and cat around in my enormous Toyota Landcruiser in Costa Rica in the late 90s and early years of the new millennium with this music blaring. There, I got that off my chest. (more…)
Posted in reseña on July 28, 2007| Leave a Comment »
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Bill Paxton is the anchor column of this lean HBO film, but the best acting comes courtesy of Donal Logue as the reporter whom Paxon’s Lt. Colonel John Paul Vann befriends early on and Ed Lauter as General Weyand. There is some very stiff work from other members of the cast, but the film succeeds on the strength of the drama it portrays. (more…)
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Although Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is normally cited as the premier literary inspiration for this landmark Francis Ford Coppola film, the voyage up the river is Homeric in its pacing, its cast of characters, and its staging. It is brilliant filming that takes one quickly past his expectation of seeing a ‘war movie’ and into the psychedelic mind of Coppola. Astonishingly, this film was released just four years after the last American troops left Vietnam, when the wounds were more than open. They were still bleeding. (more…)
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When I first picked up Interpretation many years ago prior to my own graduate studies in the field, I was working with a stingy book budget. An alert colleague warned me away from making my investment in that journal. ‘Not really a first-rate forum for biblical studies’, he commented, or something along those lines. (more…)
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Max Bruch did not exhaust the possibilities for romantic, passionate violin performance in concerto. He merely came close. (more…)
Canter Bridge 