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...even those resistant to or unmoved by the story can appreciate Taymor's settings of the songs, and the arrangements by T-Bone Burnett and other studio masters. The movie speeds up the 2/4 "I've Just Seen a Face" (for a zestful scene in a bowling alley) and slows down the ballad "If I Fell" (which Wood does very nicely), but the songs are flexible enough to still sound great. To invoke the Detroit riots, a black boy sings "Let It Be," which, upon his death, is taken up by a gospel choir at his funeral. When Max goes...
Moffett Field was a thriving military base decades ago, serving as an airfield and housing planes, blimps and soldiers alike. Since then, however, it has turned into a mixture of abandoned asbestos-filled buildings, cracked tennis courts, and an abandoned bowling alley juxtaposed against beautiful homes available for rent to military families, the world’s largest wind tunnel, and, of course, a McDonalds...
...Choke,” has a unique and twisted writing style easily recognizable from a hundred miles away. His quick narrative movements force the reader to hold on, following along in limbo between laughing, crying, or vomiting. It’s not Palahniuk’s back-alley sexuality or obsession with horrific violence that wins the reader over as much as it is what comes in between. In a vein similar to that of Dan Brown, Palahniuk captivates the reader with his supposed facts, little tidbits of information so well fleshed out that it’s difficult...
Limning a dystopian future America as “a repressive land of back-alley abortions,” The Harvard Crimson offered a stirring denunciation of the Gonzales decision. “At best,” The Crimson warned, “this reversal of precedent is worrisome, poaching abortion rights today; at worst, it is simply wrong—the first step toward completely denying a woman’s right to choose tomorrow.” The coup de grâce was saved, however, for the final paragraph: the Court?...
...quarrel with the substance of some Valenti decisions, but I enjoyed the man's style; I was amused by his presumption. With the build of a miniature bulldog and his fondness for a wildly ornate, orotund oratory, he was a throwback character out of Preston Sturges or Allen's Alley. He may have raised winces on the faces of the new-breed, laid-back moguls. But I'm guessing Valenti didn't mind being smiled at. If he was a figure of fun, he had fun being that figure...