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...Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Bob Ford (Casey Affleck) is a soulful young punk who wants to join up with Jesse (Brad Pitt) and his outlaw gang, whose exploits have made them notorious throughout the burgeoning West of the 1870s. Bob has read all the dime novels about Jesse and wants to rob his way into infamy. But the gang is breaking down from envy and exhaustion--and from the natural rancor of ornery, armed men. Bob is too late for the party; he's just in time for the funeral...
...olden times, mainly the late 1990s, faith in Greenspan's omnipotence was expressed almost exclusively in positive terms. He was the "maestro," as Bob Woodward dubbed him in a best-selling book; the senior member of the "Committee to Save the World," as this magazine put it in a 1999 cover story; the Federal Reserve chairman who didn't just preside over the longest economic expansion in U.S. history but also was credited with somehow willing it to happen...
...albums into its existence, Dave Grohl's post-Nirvana band has evolved into a four-piece version of Silver Bullet Band-era Bob Seger. Like its predecessors, Echoes is predictably ghee-tar heavy, with lyrics focused on a core of universally agreed-upon values (authenticity, integrity; you know the drill). It's tuneful, stolid, competent--but also a little dull. Like a rock...
...college, years of routinely evacuating his Gulf Coast home gave him no reason to expect anything unusual. Assuming that he would soon return to Tulane, he packed only a few pairs of shorts and t-shirts to bring to Houston with his family. A few miles away, sophomore Bob J. Payne left his Loyola University New Orleans dorm with a suitcase of athletic clothes to last about a week. For other Tulane students—such as Tommy E. Slattery, a freshman and native of New Orleans, and Ahmed A. Salahudeen, a sophomore from Jackson, Miss.—evacuation...
...film: with a minute-or-two view of the real Dylan at a concert, playing an extended vamp of "Mr. Tambourine Man" on the harmonica, focused on freeing the soul of his song through his craft. It's a reminder that, whatever social movements the Beatles and Bob Dylan were drafted to represent, whatever iconic status they've been freighted with for the past 40 years, all they really made was music. And that was enough...