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Ultimately, though, hyperbolic scenes played by unoriginal characters fail to confront the film's "deep" themes--"what is hero?" and "how absurd and objective is the media, anyway?" Frears, who in the past brought us edged films "The Grifters," "Sid and Nancy," and "Dangerous Liaisons" seems to have sold out in his first glossy big-budget film. The film's ending is too neat and much too happy, and the performances that Frears has coaxed from his superstar cast-Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, and Andy Garcia-are just mediocre...
Underwear, Aboriginals, Hamlet and an airline passenger named Death seem unlikely subjects for a poetry reading. But Australian poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe combined these and other topics in a reading last Thursday that ranged from the absurd to the beautiful to the profound...
...motive was to keep private companies from going after patents of their own -- and thus from having the power to keep potentially lifesaving but unprofitable therapies off the market. Put that way, the idea suddenly seems less absurd. NIH has three months to appeal the ruling...
...Serbian propaganda, Rugova, 47, seems an unlikely nationalist leader. A Paris-educated Ph.D. in linguistics, he explains, "I opted for nonviolence because there has been too much violence in the Balkans. But since the war in Slovenia and Bosnia, Serbian ideology is one of brute force. Nonviolence may become absurd in these circumstances." The Kosovars harbor the dangerous conviction that the U.S. and Europe will help them win independence from Serbia -- the same conviction once held by moderates in Bosnia. But because Kosovo has never been an independent republic and is technically part of Serbia, Western governments will have even...
...signed on sub Pop, also graced T.T.'s with their presence. Their hard rock grooves and melodic vocals may bring them mass success given the current rage for various former labelmates. Regardless, they gave the audience 15 minutes of pleasure. On the down side of things, Meltdown featured absurd, pretentious vocals and silly heavy-metal lead guitar. And the Vancouver duo Mecca Normal's set was too long. The guitarist did evoke some interesting sounds from his guitar with his rapid, jerky arm movements, but his partner did not add much with her less accomplished guitar playing and vocal style...