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Daniel Patrick Moynihan was one of those supreme American figures who made looking like a creature of contradiction seem the quintessential way to be. His contradictions were luminous, larger-than-life, and he wore them with a tall, puckishly smiling Irish pride. He carried himself like a patrician — the bow tie, the mop of gray hair falling into his eyes, the preternaturally precise diction — but, in fact, Moynihan grew up in Hell’s Kitchen during the Depression. (He devoted much of his public service to eradicating poverty because he’d known the sting of it.) He was a wonkishly effusive Ivy League academic, but he relished the hurly-burly of combat politics. He was a liberal Democrat who, in 1969, went to work for Richard Nixon (against the furious protests of his wife and many others). If he could have surveyed the perilous divisions that define American politics today, he would have said something like,...
- 10/3/2018
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Title: Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment First Run Features Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten Director: Toby Perl Freilich Screenwriter: Toby Perl Freilich Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 4/4/12 Opens: April 25, 2012 If Wisconsin Republican Congressman Paul Ryan, who recently pushed through the House the most reactionary, uncaring budget in memory, were to see Toby Perl Freilich’s documentary “Inventing Our Life,” would he say, “Aha: I was right all the time about my Social Darwinian economic philosophy!” or would he say, “Hmmm, maybe there’s something to be said for socialism after all!” His answer to that question would depend on your own viewpoint on the kibbutz experiment, since—as [ Read More ]...
- 4/5/2012
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
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