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...Hardly anyone makes experimental movies today. Directors are afraid that, for even a moment, they will lose, addle or exasperate the audience. The wisdom from behind the megaphone is: Go bigger, go simpler. As a result, most American films are sitcoms, predictable from first reel to last. More precisely (in this era of Short Attention Span Cinema), they are commercials, peddling primitive stories with comfortable emotions. Today's typical filmmaker is a moneychanger in a fine old temple. And Altman, ostensibly the iconoclast, is actually the idealist, the conservative, keeping the faith, fighting to preserve what's best in movies...
...price on Election Day. Jethro Singer Santa Monica, California, U.S. Bush's political isolation is not his fault. The central challenge in dealing with militant Islam has always been the tentative resolve of most Western nations to defend their interests and values. Those countries are unwilling, unable or - increasingly - afraid to do so. Europe, in particular, just sits on the fence and snipes while watching the U.S. take a stand. Real friends would be there to help, advise, plan and even make sacrifices on behalf of a shared destiny. These fair-weather friends actually seem to want him to fail...
...titled her photo album something along the lines of “Hotness!!!” or “All my favorite girls!!!” Actually, you yourself have probably made such an album at some point—almost all of us have, I am afraid. Maybe you titled yours “H-Bomb,” since that’s a popular...
...Indonesia into another Saudi Arabia," says Syafi'i Anwar, executive director of the International Center for Islam and Pluralism in Jakarta. "But in this political climate, if you say you are against the Shari'a bylaws, people say you are a bad Muslim, so no wonder so many are afraid to speak...
...never before become the business of the anonymous public. Dealing with a country where the opposite is true was the defining challenge of my summer, and prompted a period of self-reflection that has become a turning point in my spiritual life. Before this summer, I was too afraid to sincerely question something as holy as religion or second guess the personal choices that people make based on religious beliefs, but I have of late decided that I not only have the right to question Islam, but an obligation to do so when I think it is necessary.As...