April 27, 2005
1. Ray Davis on Kubrick, with an especially juicy thesis about Lolita (unfortunately I've never seen Barry Lyndon).
2. Some discussion of the origin of the term nuclear option, via Political Wire.
3. Via AFOE, Thirteen things that don't make sense, from the placebo effect to dark energy.
4. Paul from Explananda on the filibuster and democracy.
5. Alex Tabarrok on a result (from Heckman!) that's making waves but doesn't seem all that stunning to me (unless you really think that "unequal schooling, neighborhoods, and peers" are the only structural barriers black children face).
6. And Josh Corey, as usual defending the avant garde in poetry, but this time with a pause to quote a dazzling villanelle by Anne Winters.
Barry Lyndon is very pretty, although I'm not that nuts about it. But this guy obviously doesn't like Kubrick at all, so, whatever.
For the most part I agree with his formulation at the beginning there -- Kubrick's movies aren't ones I've wanted to watch again and again. This doesn't mean that I don't like and respect them, though.
Not sure how 2001 falls into the category of "OK I've seen this already," or how Peter Sellers has life in other roles but not in Dr. Strangelove, to specify a couple of his points. To each their own, I guess.
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