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BEING MORE CRITICAL: SOME KINDS OF CRITICAL APPROACHES OR HELPS
“Every effective…critic sees some facet of…art and develops our awareness with respect to it; but the total vision, or something approximating it, comes only to those who learn how to blend the...
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“LOVE BEYOND WORDS”: THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE: A BOOK INTO A MOVIE
“You can’t tell a book by its cover.” “Read the book first.” Really? “Time traveling is very confusing.” –Rachel McAdams “A movie, for me, is a completely heart-, gut-level experience. And...
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“WHO IS MARY CROVATT HAMBIDGE?” “SHOULD I CARE?”
“We are what we believe.” –Mary Hambidge [1885-1973] A lifelong pursuit of creativity, along with a love of dynamic symmetry and natural beauty, led Mary Hambidge to develop an artist’s community in...
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Each of us brings our personal history to the table of writing, revision, editing, and criticism.” –Roy Peter Clark, HELP! for Writers [Little, Brown, 2011] . . . Writing movie reviews and book...
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“WITH THESE HANDS…”
BY: JAMES F. O’NEIL How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler What a great book for me! While a senior in high school, I belonged to the Book Club. A group of us would meet once a month to discuss a...
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TELLING THE FACTUAL STORY: NARRATION 101
“If you don’t understand, ask before it’s too late.” –Anon. Once upon a time, as the story goes, there were three bears, a Lorax, and seven dwarfs. They all planned to sit down on the forest lawn one...
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“ARE YOU READY, GYP WATSON?”: MY MUSICAL CAREER
BY: JAMES F. O’NEIL Destry Rides Again is a 1959 musical “comedy”–a Western with music and lyrics by Harold Rome and a book by Leonard Gershe. The play is based on the 1939 classic film of the same...
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