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Remember? It seemed that, in the phlegmatic, latter days of the Bush presidency, the sagging national economy seemed to allow every two-bit fanatic to whip out the bullhorn and start making some noise. Of course, everyone recalls different events from the time. If you're on one side of the spectrum, that period was when the NRA nutballs and prayer-in-school peons started gathering steam. On the other side of the political fence, you recall the rebirth of radical feminism, culminating in the so-called "Year of the Woman" in Washington. Any way you slice it, the early...
...moment, plenty of projects remain in the city, and opportunities for bit parts are still available. For information about upcoming films and walk-on roles, call the MFO hotline, updated weekly, at (617) 973-8800, or visit the MFO website at www.state.ma.us...
...unlikely stretch of the imagination. It also doesn't matter much that Private Ryan, played by Matt Damon, appears too late in the film to develop as a character, thus making the story's framing device--an elder Private Ryan saluting the grave of his savior--seem a bit forced and hokey. What matters most is that the story is merely a vehicle for transporting the viewer from one spectacular, eerily realistic battle scene to another. A great part of the movie's near-three hour length consists of guns, tanks, limp bodies, bloodshed and explosions--all of which, though...
Religious traditions, however, require a bit more maturity and understanding to deal with. Pluralism and multiculturalism become trouble-some issues when we try simply to co-opt another religious tradition into our general popular culture without stopping to examine what that tradition actually means to its believers. That is why many Hindus found Madonna's performance disturbing...
...course I'm grateful that the Russians no longer send people to slave-labor camps for remarking that the factory's party boss is getting a bit plump, but I'm confused about why it's all right for the Chinese to do that sort of thing and still be our pals. See how complicated it is? Sometimes I find myself wondering what they did with the Iron Curtain after the cold war ended. Did they throw it out? Or is it just in a basement somewhere with a lot of large busts of Lenin, ready to be put back...