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...doing so while under the influence of LSD. If you're looking for footage of the fabled game, you're not going to find it - no tape has ever surfaced, and Major League Baseball hasn't rushed to dig through its archives for documentation of the psychedelic affair. But animator James Blagden has created something arguably better: a black-and-white short film to accompany Ellis' own account - taken from a 2008 interview with American Public Media - of his trippy day on the mound...
...last month, as the Elysée fought to quell accusations of nepotism around a bid by Sarkozy's son to attain an influential public job. As fellow cabinet members rejected any suggestion of favoritism or conflict of interest in the younger Sarkozy's move, Yade noted that the affair didn't look innocent to the public. "We must not give the impression that there is a gap between the protected élites and the little people," she said. (Read "Sarkozy Backs Appointment...
Still, the lack of mellow moments on the album does not entirely sour the affair, as Dashboard also chooses to indulge their newfound penchant for power ballads. Without the false urgency of the faster numbers, the ballads still retain the melodic prowess of Carrabba’s songwriting...
Alexander is in the midst of a love affair with his thesaurus that is torrid enough to rival John Banville or Salman Rushdie. “Gravid,” “photopic,” “calcareous,” “neurasthenia”: there is no shortage of ten-dollar words in this book, which can read at times like a combination of medical dictionary and arcane nautical treatise. Alexander provides a glossary at the end, but this covers only the most obscure and technical areas of his vocabulary. As overbearing and unnecessary...
...late David Foster Wallace takes the blunt emotional starkness of the written interviews and puts them into motion on the screen in such a way that the audience can’t help but feel directly addressed by each subject. The film—a short 80-minute affair made up of strung-together interview segments—doesn’t hold very well as a narrative in its own right, but it does an elegant and powerful job of conveying the central themes of Wallace’s work: the immediacy of existence and the pure moment...