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...suspect though. His previous films (“Rushmore,” “The Royal Tennenbaums,” and “The Life Aquatic,” namely) are notorious for their meticulously crafted mise-en-scène—a quality not absent from “Darjeeling.”For example, some reporters at the event questioned the degree to which the appearance of the considerable moustache sported by Jason Schwartzman’s character, whose look seems to have roots in George Harrison circa 1974, was just an accident. Coppola...
...Pakistani liberal raged that the “Lal Masjid battle is part of the wider civil war within the Islamic world waged by totalitarian forces that seek redemption through violence,” and decried their “cancerous radicalism.” This perspective is hardly absent from liberal discourse in the West: In the aftermath of the London bombings, for example, Thomas Friedman furiously demanded that the Islamic world acknowledge and cure the cancer within...
...from Boy to Boy as they sing their respective parts. Finally, they unite on a bridge for the chorus and leave little doubt that they’ve mastered the art of contorting their faces in anguish and expressing their feelings with wide arm movements. One member is conspicuously absent. Kevin Richardson declined to join the good old boys in their comeback video, perhaps because he’s nearing the age of 40. “Inconsolable” neither hurts nor helps the Boys’ image in any significant way, though it gives an unexpected boost...
...from a two-sentence summary of one woman to a brief mention of another woman diminishes the achievements of each; the reader has to transition so quickly from one story to the next that the details, while presented in full, are lost.Still, by discussing individuals who are too often absent from mainstream histories, Ulrich illuminates the many ways in which women outside the traditional narrative of female empowerment have contributed to that cause. Because history has failed to take notice of women’s heroics in domestic events and small but meaningful battles, they have cast off the characteristics...
...Astonishingly, until the first of the race's three debates last week, the issue of the slow recovery of New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana has been largely absent from the campaign. Nagin, who endorsed Jindal the last go-round, said recently that he was waiting for a sign before throwing his support behind a candidate. "I've talked to just about all of them," he said. "I keep saying I'm looking to see what the commitment of the candidates are to the recovery of South Louisiana. And they keep dancing around it. And as long as they continue...