In the modern day, this writer also neglected to mention, for example, the large and growing ranks of professing Christians in the most important position in the game: quarterback.
The writer-director Cameron Crowe is attempting a modern screwball comedy the kind of thing that, sixty years ago, would have been a swiftly paced romantic farce but he has scaled the movie as an epic and turned his heroine into a font of New Age wisdom.
Allen said he had admired the work of Gertrude Bell, the British writer and archeologist who was partly responsible for the creation of modern Iraq in the 1920s.