Great Expectations: Feast of Green

It's one of the more aesthetically rich films by Alfonso Cuaron.
I thought of the uber-talented Cuaron today while talking to someone who reacts to his work in a similar fashion.
Cuaron's filmic adaptation of the Dickens' novel remains to this day a favorite even though the literary text is not represented as authentically. But then again that is the beauty of interpretation. I believe Dickens would not mind many of Cuaron's choices, especially his poetry of color.
Here is a music video of the film. Notice the green texts featured therein.

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Excellent Book Review

The book is Outliers, the author is Malcolm Gladwell. The review is here.

A great bit is:

"Most successful people also have a phenomenal ability to consciously focus their attention. We know from experiments with subjects as diverse as obsessive-compulsive disorder sufferers and Buddhist monks that people who can self-consciously focus attention have the power to rewire their brains."

I intend to read this as soon as I can. A review will follow.

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Is a Dining Room Just a Dining Room?

This was Nixon's dining room.
The gripping article is here.

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