A glass half-full or half-empty?
A big awful mess of a mess on the carpet as yet another episode in the comedy of one’s life, or further evidence of the tragedy of life with autism?
Mirth or melancholy? (To put it a little more poetically.)
Mamma Mia! or Dark Knight—-the one (as characterized in the July 27th New York Times) a “sing-along cinematic travel brochure that set a box-office record last weekend for the opening of a musical” full of many a “peppy Abba song” in which heroine gets guy in the end, and the other a “bomb-a-minute postmodern comic-book spectacle from the …read more