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Yes.
Let that word simmer for a moment. It is the answer to a question I have long asked, in relation to the relentless puerilization of American cinema over the last 3 decades. The question was: will there be a next great adult filmmaker (in the John Cassavetes, not porno, mold) to come along? Well, he’s here, and his name is Steve McQueen, and I suspect that once his film career is at an end no one will be confusing him with the dead white American male film star of the 1960s and 1970s, for this black British director is now 2 for 2 in releasing great art to the masses. In my review of his first film......
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The general election for President of the United States is on. Sure, there is the anointing thing (the conventions), but that is a mere formality. And the speculating is getting very noisy, centering on Mitt Romney and his ability, or lack of it, to “pivot.” This pivoting means, apparently, two main things: he must switch over somehow from a “primary mode” to a “general election” mode. And he must begin, in earnest....
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Howard Gardner's 2010 interview series
In reviewing the five part television series, Extraordinary Minds, from 2010, a series of 52 minute long interviews conducted by Howard Gardner, a developmental psychologist, let me return to an earlier point in time. Some years ago, in the mid to late 1990s, I happened across a book by Gardner, who had pioneered the idea that there are multiple intelligences- seven he initially defined, then expanded to eight, beyond that measured on standard IQ tests. This theory, propounded in 1993’s Multiple Intelligences, was embroidered upon in the book I read, titled Extraordinary Minds, published in 1998, which detailed the workings of four historical figures Gardner deemed to possess extraordinary minds. The problem was, that, as troubling as Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory is, because of the fact that some of the intelligences are not intelligences, and others are merely aspects of other intelligences enumerated by Gardner, or part of the general IQ formula, the later book was even more troubling because, while, in the abstract, one can possibly dismiss a total missed claim as theoretical, when confronted with real historical examples, such claims often seem silly....
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In any given month, because of my having a popular arts website, I am literally offered hundreds of published books, videos, and other things to review, aside from thousands of submissions of poems and essays to look through. Because I work a physically demanding 40+ hour day job, run a website, and have my own creative and critical work to pursue, the fact of the matter is that I actually review well less than 1% of all the items offered to me, just as I cannot possibly comment on all of the bad written work submitted to me, even if I were able to make a full time living from Cosmoetica. But, when I encounter something of quality or promise, I am far more apt to look at and/or review subsequent works by that person....
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