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After weeks of buildup, critics are ambivalent about Oprah Winfrey's adaptation of Toni Morrison's novel: "[T]he movie is undeniably a labor of devotion and intelligence, but, in the end, a labor is just what it is" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The film gets a few outright raves, and Oprah's performance is universally lauded.
He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist."
These aspects of language are social, philosophical, artistic, largely ignored by linguists, sometimes out of devotion to what is perceived as the scientific method, sometimes out of sheer philistinism and the inability to exercise taste, sometimes out of abject ignorance.
So, here we are once again on a canvas of ahistorical pop psychology, where the silence of the fathers and their devotion to commercial culture has crippled the sons, leaving them no source of meaning other than "Were they 'sexy'?
This quality of devotion and the rewards I get from it are worth far more than any stocks or bonds in my father's estate--and cannot be taken away at the marginal rate of 55 percent.