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...something like that. Jujitsu is an ancient and honorable political strategy: if you are clever, you can upend your opponent by leveraging the force of his own assertions. But these are not clever times in Washington. The President has taken to the manic repetition of the word victory, apparently on the advice of a Duke University professor, Peter Feaver, a new addition to the National Security Council staff. Feaver conducted a cold-blooded review of recent polling and concluded that the American public would be more tolerant of the carnage if victory, whatever that means, were the likely result...
...slightly embarrassed pressed up against their partner, hands stuck to a sweaty back, and onlookers watching on with slight disdain? Dancing today, if you can call it that, has become so mortifying even the semantics make me cringe. Grinding sounds like factory lingo, the month before MCATs, or an ancient activity involving maize. Bumping reminds me of a carnival ride or a skin disease, both of which I’d prefer not to associate with romance. Most boys, on the other hand, find grinding the preferred dance of choice. It requires little coordination and negates the possibility of?...
...entire play on this concept, “The Long Christmas Ride Home.” “I saw the puppet body literally come to life,” Vogel said. To write the play, Vogel immersed herself in an unlikely combination of Christmas music and the ancient Japanese puppet theater, Bunraku. “I must have looked interesting with Christmas, Japanese, and ’60s music blaring from my car in the middle of summer,” she said.2003’s “The Long Christmas Ride Home” tells...
...World War II England by entering a magical wardrobe into Narnia, a land in which it is perpetually winter because of the curse of the evil queen, the White Witch (Tilda Swinton). The children, under the guidance of a messianic lion, Aslan (voiced by Liam Neeson), must fulfill an ancient prophecy: Defeat the Witch and free Narnia. Disney tries so hard to add peril to an otherwise tame children’s story—Lewis’s strengths were in his gentle bedtime story-like tone, wondrous creatures and espousal of Christian doctrine, not his action narrative. From...
...THIS EARTH NICK BRANDT African wildlife has never looked so regal and mysterious as in Brandt's grave photographs. His elephants appear as weighty as the pyramids. His rhinos look more ancient than carbon. His apes know something we don't. Given the multitude of human disasters in africa, is it an indulgence to lose yourself in pictures that carry no hint of the wars and famines outside the frame? Not when the pictures are such powerful reminders that africa is also a magnificent--and endangered--treasure house of animal life...