Word: bearings
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...willing one. Though I'm startled at having been spot-cast to play Travolta to his Stanwyck, I'm also tickled by what his actress wife Kelly Preston, who a few minutes before served us iced tea and scones, might find a curious sight: one middle-aged, heavyset man bear-hugging another. In a way, Travolta's giving me an in-person demonstration of the intimate bond he has created with moviegoers and is ever ready to display. "I have a tacit agreement with the audience," he tells me when we return to our respective couches, "that 'John's gonna...
...have had more than four years of a President who seems to have such a low opinion of the public that he can't bear to tell it the truth about a war gone sour. Which is why the Democrats in Congress have taken to proposing increasingly radical, if futile measures to begin the end of the war ... and which is why the most sober, prominent Republicans imaginable-- Senators like Dick Lugar and Pete Domenici--have joined the Democrats in calling for a change in policy. Indeed, the President's tragic addiction to broad-brush propaganda prevented him from telling...
...Somalis - insular, entrepreneurial and, above all, prosperous - who bear the brunt of South Africa's new prejudice. The Southern African Somali Association says more than 400 Somalis were murdered here in the last decade. In three days over Christmas 2004, seven were killed. Last year, 32 were murdered in and around Cape Town alone. Black South Africans have begun purging their neighborhoods. Last August in Cape Town, a crowd of 200 drove Somalis out of the seaside township of Masiphumele. On February 12, after a Somali shopkeeper fired on a robber and killed a passerby in Port Elizabeth...
...sort of "counter-reform" of the alternative practices of the new Mass rather than a widespread return to the old one. He says the Vatican II reform "was understood as authorizing or even requiring creativity, which frequently led to deformations of the liturgy which were hard to bear." This document is certainly a clear warning to those progressives who have their own ideas about reforming the Mass...
...Queer Duck, though also California-made, couldn't be farther from Ratatouille. No family film, this; it's a bathhouse vaudeville of nonstop gay gags and homoneurotic songs. The movie sends its main character, Adam Seymour Duckstein, away from his menagerie of friends and lovers (Openly Gator, Bi-Polar Bear, Oscar Wildcat) to be deprogrammed by a preacher. After a dose of an ungaying potion, Queer Duck pronounces himself in love with Cameron Diaz and Camryn Manheim. Liza shows...