Word: bandness
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...string of prerace mishaps--including being badly spooked by a band playing the national anthem--didn't stop Seattle Slew from taking the Derby. He became the first undefeated Triple Crown winner...
...Soraya (Suheir Hammad), a young Palestinian woman born in Lebanon and brought up in Brooklyn, goes to Jaffa to claim money her grandfather lost in the "catastrophe" (the founding of the Israeli state). There she meets handsome young Emad (Saleh Bakri, the young stud from The Band's Visit) and gets embroiled with him in a crime that might be described as the reassignment of property. The politics are plausible, the lead actors charming enough, and it's nice to see Palestine by sunset. But in its making, this is an all-too-familiar melodrama. Ordinary is the last word...
...bleached airport, Bush was greeted with the Gulf's signature mix of garish oil wealth and tinpot amateurism. A large retinue of royalty watched as a band played an off-key version of the U.S. national anthem. Bush walked through the cavernous air terminal to his motorcade and drove to the monarch's "farm" at al Janadriyah. Through the enormous gates and along alleys of dying shrubs and trees fed by miles of futile drip hoses, he made his way to the King's "villa," a marble-clad, poured concrete palace. Through a foyer with a statue of a cheetah...
...Indys, Indian Thugees in the second. But it wouldn't be the '50s without Commies, in the chic person of Irina Spalko (played by Blanchett with the severe demeanor of Cyd Charisse's Ninotchka in the 1957 MGM musical Silk Stockings and the black bob Charisse sports in The Band Wagon). Rather than the simple matter of conquering the West militarily, Irina is part of a Soviet plot to cloud our minds by getting access to some secret technology that is concealed either in an Area 51 warehouse or in the remotest jungle mountains of Peru. "We will change...
...Silva flew his team of ministers to the three poorest municipalities in Brazil - he wanted the political elite to take a firsthand look at the living conditions of the impoverished voters that had elected them. On a makeshift stage in Brazil's northern scrubland, Lula, like a triumphant band leader, presented his troupe one by one. The crowd welcomed them all politely, but cheered raucously for Benedita da Silva, the black, former housemaid who picked to oversee Lula's social programs, for Culture Minister Gilberto Gil (one of the country's best known musicians) and for Marina Silva, the tiny...