text: Goings On About Town July 28, 2008 Issue Movies By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Table of Contents Nanette Burstein directed "American Teen," opening July 25. Credit AKIKO KATO OPENING AMERICAN TEEN A documentary, directed by Nanette Burstein, about five high-school seniors in Indiana. Opening July 25. (In limited release.) BAGHEAD Reviewed below in Now Playing. Opening July 25. (Empire 25 and Sunshine Cinema.) BOY A A drama, directed by John Crowley, about a notorious twenty-four-year-old criminal (Andrew Garfield) who attempts to readjust to society after his release from jail. Opening July 23. (Film Forum.) BRIDESHEAD REVISITED Reviewed below in Now Playing. Opening July 25. (In wide release.) BUSTIN' DOWN THE DOOR A documentary about six star surfers' breakthroughs, in 1975. Directed by Jeremy Gosch. Opening July 25. (Village East Cinemas.) CSNY: DÉJÀ VU Neil Young directed this documentary, about a 2006 reunion tour by the band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Opening July 25. (Sunshine Cinema.) MAN ON WIRE Reviewed below in Now Playing. Opening July 25. (Lincoln Plaza Cinema and Sunshine Cinema.) THE ORDER OF MYTHS A documentary about the two Mardi Gras celebrations in Mobile, Alabama, which are still segregated by race; directed by Margaret Brown. Opening July 25. (IFC Center.) STEP BROTHERS Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly star in this comedy, directed by Adam McKay and co-produced by Judd Apatow, about two floundering middle-aged men who become stepbrothers when their parents marry. Opening July 25. (In wide release.) THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson star in this science-fiction drama, directed by Chris Carter. Opening July 25. (In wide release.) NOW PLAYING BAGHEAD This resolutely scruffy horror-romance by the Duplass brothers, Jay and Mark—the first genre film by members of the so-called "mumblecore" band of independent filmmakers—is short on dramatic values but long on conceptual smarts. The story concerns four struggling young actors in Los Angeles, two men and two women, who hole up in a rural cabin to write a film. Though planning to make a love story based on their own romantic tribulations, they switch to a horror movie after one of the women recounts a nightmare she had—and, suddenly, real-life horrors begin to impinge on their idyll. Much of the dialogue is improvised and the action unfolds loosely, but the Duplass brothers, who do the camera and sound work themselves, are canny about the personal significance of their casual means of production: the film's outsider-artists are modelled on themselves and their friends, and their methods are one with their milieu. The shaky camera wearies the eye but beguiles the mind, as if the filmmakers, aping the style of home movies, were also borrowing their function and fabricating sweet memories before our eyes, indulging in nostalgia for the present. The plot-driven horror-movie framework sometimes stifles the freewheeling quartet of actors (the hyperarticulate Greta Gerwig seems particularly muted) but they nonetheless conjure a sweet, low-key intimacy to balance the project's whiz-bang ingenuity.—Richard Brody (Empire 25 and Sunshine Cinema.) BRIDESHEAD REVISITED This episodic period drama, based on the 1945 novel by Evelyn Waugh, is centered on Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode), a soldier in the Second World War, as he looks back on his life. The story starts with him as a young artist at Oxford in the nineteen-twenties; there, he falls in love with the flamboyantly profligate life style of a pair of siblings, the aristocratic Sebastian (Ben Whishaw) and his beautiful sister, Julia (Hayley Atwell). Charles spends some time at Brideshead, their spectacular estate, where their staunchly Catholic mother (Emma Thompson) marches around in dour frocks ordering everyone to chapel, and attempts to dissuade her beloved Sebastian from following his homosexual tendencies. The screenwriters, Andrew Davies and Jeremy Brock, took many liberties with the book, altering not only plot points but also the main thrust of Charles's spiritual journey: instead of turning from an agnostic into a Catholic, he starts out an atheist and, seemingly, remains one. This change lends nothing to the film, a torpid version of a classic that is ultimately and unjustly devoid of passion. Directed by Julian Jarrold.—Shauna Lyon (In wide release.) THE DARK KNIGHT The last Batman movie was grim and methodical; this one, also directed by Christopher Nolan, is grim and incoherent, with a thudding soundtrack, fights shot from too close a distance to see anything, multiple events clanging together like discordant bells, and freaky sadism and menace. Christian Bale is the placid Bruce Wayne, a swank gent in Armani suits. As Batman, he has greater urgency, but he delivers his lines in a hoarse voice with an unvarying inflection. He's no match for the great Heath Ledger as his nemesis, the Joker. Ledger, in a fright wig and gobs of white makeup, shambles and slides into a room, bending his knees and twisting his neck and suddenly surging right into someone's face like a deep-sea creature coming up for air. He's thoroughly terrifying (do not, despite the PG-13 rating, bring little children), and, as you're watching him, you can't help wondering how badly he messed himself up in order to play the role this way. "The Dark Knight" has been made in a time of terror, but it's not fighting terror, it's embracing and unleashing it—while making sure, with proper calculation, to set up the next installment of the corporate franchise. With Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, and Maggie Gyllenhaal.—David Denby (Reviewed in our issue of 7/21/08.) (In wide release.) GET SMART This good-natured but bland reprise of the sixties TV classic offers a few laughs but little delight. As the bumbling top-secret Agent 86, Steve Carell delivers his droll dialogue with style, but he's no physical comedian; Anne Hathaway, a radiant romantic actress pressed into duty as his ultra-competent partner, Agent 99, is no comedian at all, though she brings the brief moments of manufactured pathos fully to life. There are some well-conceived gags and, as in the series, lots of funny gadgets, but the plot has been ramped up into a noisy and pointless action spectacle, full of generic C.G.I. The best scene is a high-stakes dance-off that is, alas, edited to death, leaving the impression that few of the actors know how to dance. A climactic wink at Hitchcock's "The Man Who Knew Too Much" does this time-filler no favors.—R.B. (In wide release.) HANCOCK Will Smith's lonely, alcoholic superhero—a nihilist slob who can't fly anywhere in Los Angeles without making a mess—is hated by everybody. The public curses him, and even the Dickensian TV lawyer Nancy Grace—of the curling lip and ferocious eye—gets on his case. A good-hearted P.R. man, Ray (Jason Bateman), tries to do something for Hancock's image. But then Ray introduces Hancock to his wife, Mary (Charlize Theron), and this inventive summer spectacle adds sexual tension and emotional power to its visual gags. For the first time in his life, Will Smith doesn't smile and tease and drawl; he stays in character as a self-hating lonely guy, and Theron, no longer covering her beauty, looks at him with an uncanny mixture of attraction and alarm. The movie takes surprising turns and is unexpectedly affecting. Written by Vy Vincent Ngo and Vince Gilligan and directed by Peter Berg.—D.D. (7/7 & 14/08) (In wide release.) HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY The fabulist director Guillermo del Toro gets a hefty budget to continue his comic-book franchise with this action-packed fantasy about a heroic demon (Ron Perlman) and his fellow beasties (Selma Blair, Doug Jones). This time, his team is joined by an ectoplasmic force (voiced by Seth MacFarlane with a Colonel Klink-like accent) that can animate inanimate objects. It's that kind of movie. The plot is thin, involving some hooey about the denizens of a hidden underground world who are out to destroy humanity. And, while Hellboy and his friends set out to save the day, intriguing story lines are brought up and then dropped (in all likelihood they will be picked up in a third installment). This film is happy to coast on its good humor and brilliant action pieces. Fair enough, since del Toro has taken the poetry of some of his best work and butched it up, creating some of the most amazing-looking creatures and battles of his career. It's eye candy for the "Creature Features" set.—Bruce Diones (In wide release.) I, PIERRE RIVIÈRE, HAVING SLAUGHTERED MY MOTHER, MY SISTER, AND MY BROTHER . . . If Robert Bresson had been a Marxist, he might have made something like this meticulous, ecstatic historical reconstruction of an 1835 murder case in rural Normandy. Working with a script based on documents edited by the philosopher Michel Foucault, including medical and judicial records as well as the killer's own memoir, the director, René Allio, went on location and recruited local nonactors to fill out the large cast of characters. The story is structured as a mystery, as the film begins at the crime scene and flashes back and forth to explain the strange, disturbing events that led up to it. Rivière, a young misfit, claims to have acted under orders from God but actually sought to avenge his father's persecution at the hands of his mother, who, in her obsessive attachment to her family's farmstead and resentment of her mother-in-law's authority, bled her husband dry financially while dallying with other men. A memorable villainess, Madame Rivière, played furiously by Jacqueline Millière, is a force of nature, and Pierre, a frustrated thinker constrained by his social status, is hauntingly portrayed by Claude Hébert, who draws out the stifled brilliance under the torment. With his efficient, clever, and disciplined methods, Allio brings to life hidden inner worlds, revealing the post-medieval brutality perched on the edge of administrative and scientific modernity. In French. Released in 1976.—R.B. (Anthology Film Archives; July 25-31.) MAN ON WIRE In 1974, Philippe Petit, the poet of the high wire, snuck his merry men into one of the towers of the World Trade Center, strung a cable across to its sister building, and performed an above-the-clouds ballet that has never been equalled. This documentary, written and directed by James Marsh, takes the archival footage of that event and, along with new interviews from the participants as well as staged reconstructions, weaves an exciting tale that plays like a heist film. The story of how and why Petit accomplished this astonishing feat is thrilling, and the charismatic Frenchman was made for the camera. He's graceful, articulate, and endearing, much like the film itself.—B.D. (Lincoln Plaza Cinema and Sunshine Cinema.) MEET DAVE This peculiarly misconceived comedy stars Eddie Murphy in a dual role, as Dave, a humanoid spaceship that lands on Earth in order to move unnoticed among earthlings, and as the tiny outer-space homunculus who is its captain. The technologically advanced intergalactic travellers are on a mission to drain the oceans dry and recover the salt for use back home as fuel, but the device that would enable them to do so has fallen into the hands of Josh (Austyn Lynd Myers), an ordinary New York fifth-grader who lives with his widowed mother (Elizabeth Banks), and Dave must make nice in order to get the gizmo back. As an alien robot attempting to master the ways of New Yorkers, Murphy is expectably uproarious, but more than half of his screen time is given over to his straight-man role as the captain, who, along with the rest of his crew, undergoes an emotional awakening upon contact with the joyful irrationality of life on earth. The sentimental strain is both unconvincing and ungrounded, but in the all-too-rare moments when Murphy, who invests with psychodrama the role of a misfit learning manners, lets himself go the movie comes brilliantly to life.—R.B. (In wide release.) TELL NO ONE The young director and actor Guillaume Canet, working with the screenwriter Philippe Lefebvre, has taken Harlan Coben's American mystery novel from 2001 and set it in the realistic social and working world of Paris and its environs, where good-looking, intelligent, and articulate people find one another interesting. François Cluzet dominates the movie as a pediatrician whose wife was murdered eight years previously. When messages show up on his computer suggesting that she may still be alive, he's amazed, and tries to reach her, only to run into the police and half the criminal underworld of Paris. Bounced back and forth among murderers and psychopaths, he has some remarkable adventures and learns about the past in tiny increments. We're meant to be a little lost, too—tantalized by hints and echoes. Underneath all the mysteries, however, there are some powerful forces at work, including the love of parents for children (one of whom is played by Canet himself). With Kristin Scott Thomas, Andre Dussollier, and Jean Rochefort. In French.—D.D. (7/7 & 14/08) (In wide release.) THE WACKNESS Ben Kingsley strains for his Alan Arkin moment in this pseudo-edgy, Manhattan-centric comic drama in the vein of "Little Miss Sunshine," set in 1994 in the age of Giuliani (whose name crops up repeatedly as a symbol of all the repressed grunginess of yore). The young director Jonathan Levine draws on the romantic frustrations of his own high-school years to tell the sincere and mawkish yet loopy story of Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck), who graduates from a private school on the Upper East Side with low grades and a high-profit job as a marijuana dealer, peddling his wares from a pushcart labelled "Ices." When Luke is down in the dumps he sees a psychiatrist, Dr. Jeffrey Squires (Kingsley), whom he pays in dime or quarter bags—and who is the stepfather of Luke's object of affection, Stephanie (Olivia Thirlby). The burgeoning romance is sweet and plausible, if utterly conventional, but Kingsley's weird-old-man routine, played out in the shrink's growing bond with the smart yet naïve young slacker, is fake and vain, a shameless play for an Oscar nod. This Sundance prize-winner, made on the cheap, is as formulaic and calculated as the most banal big-studio productions. With Famke Janssen, Method Man, and, for no reason at all, Mary-Kate Olsen.—R.B. (In limited release.) WALL-E It has the waggish adorableness and the tripping-and-falling roughhouse of other animated films, but it's also a work of tragic nostalgia. In the first half, WALL-E, a robotic trash collector and compactor, continues to go about his duties after the human presence has been blown away from Earth by billowing waves of noxious dust. He trolls among the detritus of the vanished culture, fetishizing such junk items as plastic forks, hubcaps, and a tape of the lumbering musical "Hello, Dolly!," which provides him with models of human connection and such oddities as singing and dancing. A robot named EVE—she looks like a hovering white plastic egg designed by Steve Jobs's gang in Cupertino—lands on Earth; he woos her, and then accompanies her to a space station called the Axiom, where, it turns out, the remaining humans have been living for seven hundred years in a totalitarian pleasure garden run by a giant big-box-store company. "WALL-E" blends two kinds of science fiction—the postapocalyptic disaster movie and the dystopian fantasy derived from Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World," in which people are controlled not by coercion but by pleasure. It's also a satire on the engulfing tendencies of consumer capitalism. From the Pixar division of Disney. Directed by Andrew Stanton.—D.D. (7/21/08) (In wide release.) WANTED After "Night Watch" and "Day Watch," two of the most successful—and certainly the loudest—Russian films ever made, the director Timur Bekmambetov has turned his hungry eyes on the United States. The result is this furious and fantastical piece of junk, which, though nominally set in some town called "Chicago," could take place almost anywhere with roads. The plot entails yet another revenge of the nerd: an accountant (James McAvoy) who follows in the footsteps of his father and becomes a dexterous assassin. He is trained in this delicate art by Sloan (Morgan Freeman), Fox (Angelina Jolie), and a bunch of other killers who have the best interests of the world at heart and, one hopes, their tongues firmly stapled to their cheeks. The outcome should be playful and zippy, and some of the chase sequences, to be fair, are enjoyably shameless in their rush to excess; but the film as a whole feels much nastier than it needs to be, abounding in details of damaged flesh, and it leaves a sour taste.—Anthony Lane (6/30/08) (In wide release.) ALSO PLAYING A MAN NAMED PEARL: Angelika Film Center. FELON: Sunshine Cinema. TRANSSIBERIAN: In wide release. REVIVALS, CLASSICS, ETC. Titles with a dagger are reviewed above. ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES 32 Second Ave., at 2nd St. (212-505-5181)—Special screenings. July 25-29 at 7 and July 30-31 at 9:15: "Back to Normandy" (2007, Nicolas Philibert; in French). | July 25 and July 28-29 at 9:15, July 26-27 at 4:30 and 9:15, and July 30-31 at 6:45: "I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother . . ." (+). | "Delineating Borders: The Films of Jesse Lerner." All films are in Spanish unless otherwise noted. July 25 at 7:30: "Frontierland" (1995; in English and Spanish). | July 26 at 7:30: "Ruins" (1998; in English and Spanish). | July 27 at 7:30: "The American Egypt" (2001), "Magnavoz" (2006), and "T.S.H." (2004). | "Essential Cinema." July 26 at 5:30: Short films by Ron Rice, Hans Richter, and Paul Sharits. | July 27 at 5: "Triumph of the Will" (1934-35, Leni Riefenstahl; in German). BAM ROSE CINEMAS 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn (718-636-4100)—"All the Real Americans: The World of David Gordon Green." July 23 at 6:50: "The Gravy Train" (1974, Jack Starrett). | July 23 at 9:15: "Tango and Cash" (1989, Andrei Konchalovsky and Albert Magnoli). | July 24 at 7:30: "Pineapple Express" (2008, David Gordon Green), followed by a Q. & A. with the director. | "Four from Robert Hamer." July 28 at 6:50 and 9:15: "The Scapegoat" (1959). | July 29 at 6:50 and 9:15: "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1949). | July 30 at 6:50 and 9:30: "Father Brown" (1954). | July 31 at 4:30, 6:50, and 9:15: "It Always Rains on Sunday" (1947). FILM FORUM W. Houston St. west of Sixth Ave. (212-727- 8110)—Through Aug. 7: "The Human Condition" (1959-1961, Masaki Kobayashi), in three parts. All films are in Japanese. July 23 at 2 and 7; July 25 at noon, 4, and 8:10; July 27 at noon; and July 30 at 2 and 7:30: Part One, "No Greater Love." | July 24 at 1, 4:40, and 8:20; July 26 at 1, 4:40, and 8:20; July 27 at 4; and July 29 at 1, 4:40, and 8:20: Part Two, "Road to Eternity." | July 27 at 7:40: Part Three, "A Soldier's Prayer." IFC CENTER 323 Sixth Ave., at W. 3rd St. (212-924-7771)—In revival. July 25-26 at 11 A.M.: "Virgin Spring" (1960, Ingmar Bergman; in Swedish). | "Waverly Midnights." July 25-26: "Wild in the Streets" (1968, Barry Shear). 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De Mille; silent). | July 25 at 8:30 and July 31 at 6: "The Sign of the Cross" (1933, De Mille). | July 26 at 8:15 and July 28 at 6: "Cleopatra" (1934, De Mille). | July 27 at 2 and July 28 at 8: "The Ten Commandments" (1956, De Mille). | "Première Brazil." All films are in Portuguese. July 25 at 6: "Pindorama: The True Story of the Seven Dwarves" (2007, Roberto Berliner). | July 26 at 2:30: "Estômago: A Gastronomic Story" (2007, Marcos Jorge). | July 26 at 5 and July 28 at 6: "The Man Who Bottled Clouds" (2008, Lirio Ferreira). | July 26 at 8: "The Mystery of Samba" (2008, Carolina Jabor). RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART 150 W. 17th St. (212-620-5000, ext. 344)—"Cabaret Cinema." July 25 at 9:30: "Heaven Can Wait" (1943, Ernst Lubitsch). WALTER READE THEATRE Lincoln Center (212-875-5600)—Special screenings. July 28 at 6:30: "Fields of Fuel" (2008, Josh Tickell). | "Dominique Delouche: Ballet Cineaste." Except where noted, all films are in French. 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Orchid (2012) by James Clar.
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A 3D printed orchid is cast in rubber, giving it an organic liquid form. This is placed in the middle of an array of lights. These lights cast colors onto the white form which reflects different colors depending on the angle the viewer looks at the orchid.
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An MMO developed by Cryptic, makers of City of Heroes and Champions Online, set in the original Star Trek universe in the year 2409, thirty years after the last appearance of the Next Generation crew in film, and 22 after Romulus was destroyed in the prime timeline as per Star Trek XI. The game was originally being developed by Perpetual, but was auctioned off as the studio was facing severe financial troubles at the time, and actually had to lay off nearly half of the development staff.The Borg are back, deadlier than ever before, and the galaxy is once more on the edge of war. The Federation and the Klingon Empire are at each other's throats again, and the tattered remains of the Romulan Star Empire post "Countdown" may be scattered, but they remain a credible military threat to both, and to the fledgling Romulan Republic. That's only compounded with a newly democratic Cardassia facing a civil war against True Way rebels helped by Dominion renegades, and the Undine (formerly Species 8472) infiltrating everyone.In other words, the 25th century Star Trek universe has become a Crapsack World (relatively speaking), and it's up to the player(s) to find a way to make it right.The game combines space travel with on-foot segments and a healthy dose of combat in both. A proprietary engine was created to randomize missions, star systems, and planetary surfaces, in order to provide new and different experiences every time a player engages in a mission or quest.And, of course, being a Cryptic game, Character Customization is suitably bonkers and may in fact eclipse every other thing they've done. You have an absolutely astounding number of ways to customize your captain; not only has almost every facial feature from the TV series been included, but Cryptic has included all kinds of inventions of their own. And then they allow you to apply the same level of customization to your entire bridge crew. And then you get to customize the hull of your ship, and then you get to customize your bridge with further interior customization and... well, you get the idea. Oh, and you can create a new custom species for your captain.The general consensus is that the game is essentially a mix of World of Warcraft IN SPACE! combined with Star Trek: Starfleet Command... and this isn't necessarily that bad a thing at all. Especially with "Featured Episodes", small content updates centered around a fairly lengthy and involved mission, the advent of a pretty good branching dialogue tree on top of the combat, and most recently very solid "themed" patch updates, the game has found a fairly solid set of legs and and a strong following after an admittedly rocky start, and is now Cryptic's best-selling, most profitable product.When the game started, there were only two playable factions: the Federation and the Klingon Empire. After three years of rumors of more factions being added, the Legacy of Romulus expansion adds Romulans and Remans as playable races, along with iconic ships like the Bird of Prey and the D'deridex Warbird. Additionally, there's been discussion from the devs of a possible future Cardassian faction, but no official confirmation that it's going to happen just yet.On August 2, 2014, STO's second expansion, Delta Rising, was announced with a release date set for October 2014, adding the first level cap increase in years (to 60 Fleet Admiral/Dahar Master), and returning the players to the Delta Quadrant to explore what happened after Voyager left the area.The game went Free-To-Play on January 17, 2012, with the standard Subscription option containing boosts such as more wallet space, the ability to create content in the Foundry, a stipend of Zen (their Store Points), and so on, so lifetimers don't have to feel cheated at the game going free. In addition, all players can earn dilithium from end game content to trade in for Zen, allowing players who can't afford to spend real money on the game the opportunity to grind their way towards the store items they want.Another unique feature of the game is the Foundry, an in-client Level Editor toolset for players to create their own missions that can then be played from a storefront in the main game. As with anything else Sturgeon's Law applies, but the game has an established core of dedicated Foundry authors that gather on the forums and on Starbase UGC.com and produce missions that are often rated as being better than the official outings. A sparsely populated list of work pages for some Foundry missions can be found at Recap.Star Trek Online. Cryptic also ported the editor to STO's sister game Neverwinter.The game is considered part of the Star Trek Expanded Universe, but is an Alternate Continuity to the Novel Verse (with the big point of diversion being that Star Trek: Destiny just flat-out does not happen).
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The Gift of Memorization
- Friday, October 26, 2012
Regardless of the source, our inner mental dialogue consists of many quotations, song lyrics, movie quotes, and poetry references. We draw on this inner pool of words when we think, write, and speak. Some pools are shallow; others are deep, varied, and rich.
Throughout the centuries, great thinkers have relied upon their stocks of memorized poetry, prose, oratory, drama, and history to fuel and inform their creative works. Patriotism, nobility of thought and action, gracious behavior, and honor were instilled in children from an early age by the practice of rote memorization.
Until about the 1970s, schoolchildren in classrooms would regularly memorize classic poetry and oratory. This practice inducted children into the cultural dialogue of English-speakers and equipped them with the inner rhythms, tools, metaphors, characters, and vocabulary of our rich language.
Sadly this practice is no longer current. However, children are still memorizing words—it is part of the way they learn. Only now, instead of memorizing the building blocks of intellectual prowess and personal expression in the form of the Great Conversation, they are memorizing dialogue from cartoons, lyrics from the vapid pop songs that flood our airways, and words used in food and toy commercials.
It's time to begin giving our children the gift of memorization once again. We will certainly benefit at the same time, for possibly we have missed the boat ourselves. We will find ourselves empowered along with our children, and our homes will be enriched by the current of thought scored into our memories, and thus, into our hearts.
The goal of memorization, at least in how it's used for this article, is to actively ingest and digest worthy words and sentiments, allowing their meaning and form to be impressed upon the very fabric of our souls. This kind of memorization will allow us to, years from now, recall the haunting "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and tell the tale in whispers to our children. Or, when facing the ocean for the first time, we might remember Homer's "wine-dark sea" and have words to express the wordless wonder oppressing our souls. Memorization places us squarely in the stream of history and fills us with the great thoughts of those who have gone before. It is the ideal internalization.
In the context of academics, there's nothing wrong with simple rote memorization—the parrot-like "sing-song" of children reciting nursery rhymes is not inherently wrong. In fact, it is a necessary stage in the appreciation of rhythm and meter, and is what will allow our students to analyze and read with appreciation the harder work of modern poets and the twisted, convoluted, yet rewarding prose of the classical masters.
Will memorization create mere "parrots" who lack the ability to think for themselves? Unlikely, if treated in the right way. In the classical model of education, children spend the first few years of their lives acquiring facts, figures, rhythms, and forms that will accompany them as they mature and give them the ability to test their growing thoughts and opinions against those of others. Memorization is a crucial aspect of the grammar stage of the classical trivium.
This trivium, which is part of a larger method of education, consists of the Grammar, or elementary, stage, the Logic, or question, stage, and the Rhetoric, or reasoning, stage. The first (roughly first through fourth grade) consists of learning facts and figures about the world, to prepare the mind for asking questions and putting disparate concepts together in the second (roughly fifth through eighth grades) and beginning to speak, debate, form opinions, and reason persuasively in the last (high school).
As homeschooling parents, you have the gift of picking and choosing from the educational systems of the past such elements as seem appropriate to you. If memorization is to be an aspect of your schooling, it is important to approach the practice with a plan.
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2011 Black Quail "Estate" Pinot Noir Bannockburn Central Otago
Review Date: 9-21-2014
This wine gives a supple, lush entry onto the palate and then bursts into racing acidity, forming a vibrant and balanced wine. The flavors are smoky, brooding and savory while leaving an intense, mouth-coating aftertaste. A wine that really shows flash, sizzle and will make you start looking for your fork! Try this with prosciutto-wrapped pork tenderloin, or a classic guanciale-laden spaghetti carbonara and this wine's depth and flavor spectrum will be completed!
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Review Date: 9-21-2014
Vineyard pedigree and tremendous winemaking are on full display in this delicious Pinot Noir! There is plenty of sappy sweet fruit to balance the bright acidity and fine tannin. Notes of exotic spice, sandalwood and earthy savor make this yet another example of fine Pinot Noir hailing from the Central Otago region.
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Review Date: 9-20-2014
It is wines like these that are putting New Zealand on the map! This Pinot Noir from Black Quail is so elegant, so complex, and so luxurious that the bottle will be gone before you know it. The aromas of dark fruit and spice carry on to the palate, and then wild herbs, underbrush, and spicy mineral notes carry on long after the wine has left your tongue. The mouth feel is silky smooth and balanced out with lively acidity. This wine will pair with many foods, but I am planning on serving this during the holidays when I make my mushroom, apple and herb dressing. Grab this before its gone!
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Review Date: 9-20-2014
A classic beauty. The Laballe VS is expressive with aromas that are floral and inviting. It has a light to medium body and a nice long finish. An excellent Armagnac.
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Review Date: 9-19-2014
Beautiful rich Pinot Noir with a striking balance of pure dark fruit, exotic Asian spices, wild herbs and warm earth. An exquisite combination of power and precision with layers of soft fruit underlain with mineral and savory complexities. Silky smooth tannins and excellent length on the palate. This is primo Central Otago Pinot and a very attractive price!
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2012 Honig Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
Review Date: 9-18-2014
Plush, yet structured, integrated oak and tannins, a great bottle to pop and serve this year, or cellar for up to 12 years from now. Incredible balance and class. This is classic Napa Cab at an even more classic price!
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2012 Joseph Jewell Russian River Valley Pinot Noir
Review Date: 9-18-2014
This has the weight and texture you expect of Pinot from the Russian River Valley yet remains pure, bright and dry. An array of ripe red fruits, touches of earth and hints of spice evolve and expand as this opens up in the glass and the palate cleansing finish is clean and snappy.
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Monkey 47 Schwarzwald Gin 375ml
Review Date: 9-17-2014
Last time we were in Scotland, I full on freaked out in a small spirits shop in Edinburgh when I noticed this diminutive bottle of gin sitting on the shelf. For years, the Monkey 47 had been unobtanium, a regrettable situation for all the knowledgeable and gin soaked. Driscoll and Kurani had not yet experienced this legendary gin, but thanks to the UKs reasonable tasting regulations -the old "taste whatever you like" rule- we were soon dunking our noses in a few drops of its magnificence. I think tasting this after several other gins really put into perspective how special it really is. Created through the confluence of British aesthetics, Indian flavors, and the distinctly Teutonic natural treasure that is the Schwarzwald, The Monkey packs an enormous amount of complexity into that little bottle. It's the sort of gin that will save that cocktail you're about to ruin. You could have just as well served it straight because it sips beautifully even at room temperature. Its quite a departure from your standard recipe gin, although some familiar elements are layered throughout. There is a strong yet soothing evergreen presence. A keynote if you will, but by no means the only focus. On the nose a dried floral aroma is accented by a twinge of spicy ginger. At the front, what seems like a citrus or chamomile quickly morphs into tea tree and sweet herbs, lemon verbena -now cucumber peel and pepper, it just keeps on going. Ive got to stop trying to describe its flavor, its not working. It has a glorious tendency to be completely different with each sip, a true rollercoaster of flavors. Every single one of its 47 botanicals is tuned to the same perfect frequency. It's wild and utterly fabulous, but not in an awkward way. Instead, it seems to be all very deliberate, even stoic. I gladly forked over the £40s the shop was asking, as did my colleagues. We nearly cried when we heard it would finally be arriving stateside.
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2013 Spring Vale Estate "Melrose Vineyard" Pinot Noir Tasmania
Review Date: 9-17-2014
From the cool region of Tasmania, the Spring Vale Pinot delivers a classic pretty, elegant Pinot Noir. The bouquet has lifted notes of plum, raspberry, strawberry and spice. This all sits on a delicate frame of a medium-bodied wine that offers the more feminine side of Pinot if not a version of a Fleurie or St. Amour from Beaujolais. Enjoy this with a favorite chicken or salmon dish, and even with a slight chill for an afternoon picnic.
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2004 York Creek "Track" Spring Mountain District Cabernet Sauvignon
Review Date: 9-17-2014
After the last few years I think just about everyone has heard us pontificating about just how good, and how insanely inexpensive, the York Creek wines are. Luckily for us and our thirsty customers Fritz Maytag kept deep cellars over the years and still has plenty of wine for us to sell. After the rousing success of past vintages and the first Single Block offering, the 2005 Sunny Hill which we sold out in a matter of days, we thought wed back up the truck again and offer you the 2004 Track. Another Single Block wine, again from 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, the Track is a wine that is incredibly charming 10 years after vintage. Wildly aromatic and showing off the lovely forest driven, mushroom, sage and black currants that are synonymous with Spring Mountain this is every bit as expressive as any of the previous York Creek wines weve sold. A bit more feminine in its approach however this combines dusty blue and black fruits with layers of bay leaf, olive tapenade, wild mountain berries and a long finish that alternates back and forth between savory and fruity. I truly thought this wine was one of the best I tasted from York Creek recently and is an insane value for $29.99. However like the 2005 Sunny Hill before it there are only 60 cases and we dont expect them to be around for very long. Act quick!
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2012 Oakridge Single Vineyard Series "Guerin Vineyard" Pinot Noir Yarra Valley
Review Date: 9-16-2014
I love deliciously delicate red Burgundy. LOVE it. However, I cannot get deliciously delicate red Burgundy that really showcases incredible fruit these days for $23. I'll likely have to pay between $50-$100 for that experience. That's why K&L's new Australian import, Oakridge, is one of the most exciting new finds from our Southern Hemisphere buyers. The Guerin Vineyard Pinot Noir, with its colder climate and lighter body, is exactly what I want from Burgundy. It's soft, haunting, intricate, and nuanced. It just so happens that it comes from Australia instead of France. Magical wine that really forces you to re-examine your perception concerning the wines from Down Under. This is NOT your typical big-fruited, 90 point Shiraz-type fruit bomb. This is real deal stuff.
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2012 Oakridge Single Vineyard Series "Oakridge/Whitsend Vineyard" Shiraz Yarra Valley
Review Date: 9-16-2014
If you like big, high-alcohol, fruit-bomb Shiraz, then DO NOT get this wine. This Shiraz from Oakridge is for Northern Rhone lovers, people who crave Cote Rotie, and love that hint of black pepper underneath a delicate layer of dark red fruit. If I had tasted this blind, I would have guessed Northern Rhone and been entirely confident in that wager. AUSTRALIA? Jeez, I'm going to have to re-examine my feelings about Australian wine. This is amazing stuff.
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2012 Oakridge Single Vineyard Series "d'Aloisio Vineyard" Chardonnay Yarra Valley
Review Date: 9-16-2014
One of the most exciting Chardonnays I have tasted in many years. If you love big, buttery and rich Chardonnays this wine is NOT for you. But... if you love great Chablis and Puligny Montrachet you will love this wine as it comes off as a combination of both of those famous wine regions in the glass. Both of those regions have gone crazy price-wise, which makes this wine even more unbelievable for $22.99! Loaded with intense green apple fruit, great freshness a touch of flintyness and lazer beam focus. Just incredible and always in my vacation box of wine!. Enjoy! -Ralph
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2010 Atalon Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon | Public Pending Approval
Review Date: 9-16-2014
With a brooding, dark berry aroma hinting at wild grape, and a concentrated palate of reduced plums made juicier with a malic tang, this seems a well-priced table Cab for roasts with port sauce, and fall-winter root vegetables.
Price: $24.99
2012 Joseph Jewell Russian River Valley Pinot Noir
Review Date: 9-15-2014
From out of a lineup of domestic Pinot Noirs recently, this one really stole the show for me. Funny thing is, it isnt a show stopper: it is commendable for the restraint it displays. The fruit is very pure and natural, dialing back the ripeness quotient you often contend with in California Pinot Noirs, the flavors have intensity without heaviness, and the body is trim, taut, and focused; in other words, it shows all the gracefulness you might hope for in a Pinot, but which is often sadly lacking for one reason or another.
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Making his third career start in the contest, quarterback Ryan Lindley was rather uninspiring, throwing for 104 yards, to go along with one interception and no touchdown passes. Most of the offense was generated by an opportunistic defense, and Beanie Wells seemed to handle the rest of the load (career-high three touchdowns) in the red zone.
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Helmet rule passes, Bengals only one to vote against it
03/20/13 at 2:56pm by Joe Reedy | Comments
As is usually the case when it comes to controversial rules changes at the NFL Annual Meetings, the helmet rule ended up passing. After it seemed like there was a lot of opposition early, the rule ended up passing 31-1 on Wednesday. The only team to vote against it was the Bengals. Marvin Lewis, who […]
Video: Reedy on Bengals at the Owners Meetings
03/19/13 at 7:21pm by Dave Clark | Comments
After re-signing Ray Maualuga to a two-year, $6.5M contract, where does he fit in on defense? CineSport's Noah Coslov and The Enquirer's Joe Reedy discuss this and the Bengals' free agency needs:
Breakfast with Marvin highlights
03/19/13 at 3:46pm by Joe Reedy | Comments
The yearly NFL Annual Meetings tradition of Breakfast with Marvin took place on Tuesday as the AFC coaches met the media for an hour. For those of you keeping score at home on the Marvin Lewis talking points, you would have had a full bingo card – stressing re-signing their own players, building through the […]
Bengals will have 10 draft picks
03/18/13 at 9:22pm by Joe Reedy | Comments
After not having any last year, the Bengals received two compensatory picks for next month's draft and will have a total of 10 picks. The Bengals received two seventh-round selections after having a net loss of two unrestricted free agents last year. There are three rounds where they have multiple picks — the second (trade […]
Bengals re-sign Maualuga to two-year deal
03/18/13 at 11:44am by Joe Reedy | Comments
The one player that drew the most fan criticism will be back with the Bengals. The team has re-signed LB Rey Maualuga to a two-year deal worth $6.5 million. Maualuga will be going into his fifth season and was drafted in the second round in 2009. He was second in tackles (152) last season and led the […]
Running back rule will draw the most scrutiny
03/17/13 at 10:48pm by Joe Reedy | Comments
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Of the rules changes that will receive consideration during this week's NFL Annual Meeting at the Arizona Biltmore, the Tuck Rule will receive the most attention from fans. The one receiving the most scrutiny though from players and coaches is Playing Rule Proposal No. 6. Here is the proposal: 2013 PLAYING RULE […]
Lewis discusses free agency and talking people down from the ledge
03/17/13 at 10:19pm by Joe Reedy | Comments
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — When it comes to fan angst about the Bengals lack of moves in free agency so far, head coach Marvin Lewis has not been immune to hearing about it. As everyone gathered at the Arizona Biltmore for the start of the annual league meetings, Lewis said Sunday night that he even had to […]
On to Phoenix and the league meetings
03/16/13 at 5:27pm by Joe Reedy | Comments
The NFL Annual Meetings don't officially begin until Monday but there will be some action on Sunday with various coaches and committee meetings. With this year's free agency period being less than a week old, it could have the feel of the baseball winter meetings, which is appropriate since this year's session is taking place […]
About MeJoe Reedy took over as The Enquirer's Bengals beat writer in 2009 after covering the University of Kentucky and doing an NFL picks column. Reedy's previous NFL experience includes covering the Jets for The Post-Star in Glens Falls, NY (1997-98) and Jaguars for The Gainesville Sun (1999). The Youngstown native lives in Burlington and is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Board of Selectors.
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Here is the thing I have been wondering about since Spygate came to light. Of all the teams that the New England Patriots reportedly stole signals from, never once have I read the Oakland Raiders. Maybe I am just a sports-romantic who is still upset about the "tuck rule," or maybe I am on to something here. The tuck rule is no Immaculate Reception. Franco Harris was lucky. This is the Immaculate Deception. Tom Brady was "lucky."
Did a Boston paper fabricate the story about the Patriots taping the walk-through for the St. Louis Rams, which they truly did, but as a red herring to discredit Matt Walsh? Gee, I wonder.Everyone wonders: How can stealing-signals be that important? Well, chew on this. How did Bill Belichick know that CB Charles Woodson would blitz Tom Brady? How did Tom Brady know to pump-fake? How did Bill Belichick know exactly what to challenge when he threw the red flag? Were the Patriots stealing signals during the Snow Job (if you remember, the Patriots stunk in the first half before looking brilliant in the second half)? The final question though is not whether it should have been a fumble, but: Why was it not a sack?
The ramifications of a victory by the Raiders: No Adam Vinatieri heroics while a trade-deal or the bench loomed as the future of QB Tom Brady, not QB Drew Bledsoe (whom they traded to Buffalo). No "genius" Bill Belichick either. Meanwhile, Coach Jon Gruden *probably* would not have been traded from Oakland to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who of course defeated the Oakland Raiders in the 2002-2003 Super Bowl.
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