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...From hell's heart I stab at thee!" spumes Captain Ahab (Gregory Peck) as he harpoons the great white beast. "For hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee, thou damnèd whale!" Yes, this version of the Melville novel has its starchy parts, and Peck takes a while to shake off his trademark decency and slip into Ahab's rasping obsession. Plus, the film's mechanical whale, which looks like a great slab of lard with a cold blue eye, kept sinking when it was meant to swim. But what matters is the saline tang...
...early nuclear age. Japan got its cinematic revenge for the A-bomb with the story of a prehistoric monster (called Gojira at home, Godzilla abroad), its eon-long sleep disturbed by an A-blast, that rises from the depths to stomp on Tokyo. In dozens of sequels, the beast devolved into a toy or a clown. But here, just nine years after Hiroshima, Gojira is a political metaphor that roars majestically to life...
...Cheney is hated as the most cruel monster and bloodthirsty beast as he has drenched various parts of the world in blood." NORTH KOREAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN, in blaming U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney for delaying the resumption of the six-party nuclear disarmament talks...
...Nashville, making a record--there's a lot of uncertainty. I was excited but cautious." Whether some of that caution crept into Loco Motive is hard to know, but anyone expecting controversy will be surprised. Troy calls himself "the last of the Brohicans" on the Kid Rock-ish Beast on the Mic and asks the ladies to "get low" and "make it clap" on the willfully stupid (and thoroughly enjoyable) My Last Yee Haw, but the album is hardly a paragon of genre-bending ambition. Most of it falls squarely, if not unpleasantly, within the accepted boundaries of modern country...
Entering freshmen--the plebes--spend the summer together in Beast Barracks, designed to turn all those class presidents and Eagle Scouts into hairless, spotless, expressionless soldiers who for the next year or so won't speak unless spoken to. By the end of August, a certain number typically conclude that it was all a big mistake, that a nice liberal-arts menu would be more to their taste. The plebes going through Beast in the summer of 2001 were tough: only 41 members quit, the second lowest dropout level in 15 years. They would need to be, since...