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...confess that you hated The Matrix Reloaded. You hated Morpheus' speechifying, winced at the smarmy Merovingian and at the film's truncated ending. As for Zion, if they'd spent one more minute on that faux full-moon party, you were going to start a little Burly Brawl of your...
...reportedly vying to produce it, but it was National Theatre boss Nicholas Hytner who won out, staging the show during the first season of his directorship. It may seem perverse to take a trashy American TV talk show, on which guests with bizarre emotional problems routinely yell at and brawl with each other, and turn it into opera. Opera is still widely perceived as élitist, rarely relevant but always rarefied. The Jerry Springer Show delights in being consumer culture's dregs. But forcing a collision between high art and low is a dependable way to make sparks...
...late thirties because they're equally happy to go along with their mothers or sit alongside someone who's 19. It's a secure environment, as opposed to others that are male-dominated like clubs and pubs." True, the average bingo game is unlikely to break out into a brawl. But if the industry thrives on young blood, it may need something more tempting than civilized behavior. As older punters literally die off, operators have to entice their children and grandchildren to carry on the bingo tradition. "We're keeping the bucket topped up," says Sowerby. "We need...
Fact: In my junior year of high school, I remember there was a big brawl in the school parking lot between some cowboy boot wearing hicks and a group of gangsta-wannabe thugs. If that’s not cultural diversity at its most potent, then I don’t know what...
...most scientists, God is irrelevant. And that is a very good thing. When science and religion intersect, an unseemly brawl (Galileo and the Church) or a synthesis that is an intellectual train wreck (creationism and “intelligent design theory”) usually result...