White was both complex and uncomplicated
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Following the 1995 season, I decided to write a profile on Reggie White, whose church in Tennessee had mysteriously burned down the previous fall.
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The ensemble is well tuned, reasonably together and certainly not lacking in enthusiasm. Its size was not right for the space.
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Mr. Johns seems to have perfected the art of talking about his work without ever revealing too much.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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Once again John Adamsâs âDoctor Atomic,â at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, came across as the most complex and inventive of his works.
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âLongingâ intrigues because it presents an outwardly decent man falling equally in love with two women but eschews simplistic judgments.
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Paul Davis cleared his mind and a strong performance followed.
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A simple question yields a surprising answer.
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Steve Kazmierczak was seen as personable and an excellent student, not a brooding outcast.
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Even as the turns of its narrative and the contours of its characters are recognizable, very little about âEastern Promisesâ feels predictable or secondhand.
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For Roger Federer, simple equates to sanity. Simple is his stated game plan. He has put a box around his life, and only the important things are allowed in.
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Robert Howard looked like an ideal candidate for medical school. His grades were good and his recommendations solid. Plus he had a certain intangible that made him
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The Metropolitan Museumâs show offers a supremely clear account of his maturation from brilliant, methodical young artist to a deeper, more lyrical, less predictable one.
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There's one way to sift through all it has to offer.
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Sure, they're good, but they're kind of complicated, too.
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The minimalist work of Dan Flavin and his use of light, as seen at the National Gallery in Washington, has lasted because he is a gifted formalist.