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...Enemy Now? In today's terror-struck world, war has evolved far beyond one nation fighting another [March 29]. Now a globally dispersed band of Islamist assassins, worshippers of death, blow themselves to bits along with as many innocent victims as possible. The civilized people of the world, regardless of nationality, must devise brand-new strategies for dealing with crazed terrorists. The U.S.'s unilateral actions seem only to be inflaming them. The U.N.'s practices of negotiation, inquiry, mediation and judicial settlement won't work against deranged extremists who hide behind religion, nor will sending troops to trouble spots...
...Letter on Metaphysics,” was a combination of music performance, poetry read aloud and dancing. This was not a well-chosen work as the finale, for it made me wish that the dancers stick to their own craft and not try to impersonate a band with drums and the works. The text read aloud to the discordant music did not ease the ordeal, and the whole experience overshadowed any quality dancing also featured in the piece...
...stuck with one theme. Being part of Gen X may not mean you had a goatee or were in a grunge band; it did, however, mean there was a good chance that your family was screwed up and that you feared it had damaged you. Only Ross and Monica have a (relatively) happy set of parents. Phoebe's mom (not, we later learn, her biological mother) committed suicide, and her dad ran out. When Chandler was 9, his parents announced their divorce at Thanksgiving--Dad, it turned out, was a cross-dresser, played by Kathleen Turner. Joey discovered his father...
...morning. They told me to take off for two days, but I got a doctor's certificate to extend it. The guy threatened to fire me. He said, 'You know what's going to happen!' I said, 'No! What?' It was funny." A decent drummer, Gondry was in a band called Oui Oui and started making videos for the group. These caught the eye of other artists, and launched a career creating visual accompaniments to music by Björk and the Rolling Stones, and more recently, Beck and the White Stripes. He "doesn't rely on technology or gimmicks...
Bedfellows don't come much stranger than Joe/Josephine and Jerry/ Daphne in Billy Wilder's classic 1959 comedy, Some Like It Hot. On the run from mobsters, the characters played by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon don drag and take refuge in an all-girl band, sharing beds, submerging stereotypes and sending sexual expectations out to sea. Has there been a more subversive ending than when Jerry/Daphne and his millionaire admirer Osgood sail off into uncharted waters? "Uh, I'm a man," Jerry says, ripping off his wig. "Well," Osgood replies, "nobody's perfect...