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...films, the one to track down is the 1958 Cairo Station, which documents the tough lives of people peddling newspapers and soft drinks to train travelers. Though it moves on the tracks of tragedy, for much of its brief length the movie has the exuberance of '50s Italian comedies, with bawdy banter, tabloid stories of decapitations, and a saucy heroine (the Lollobrigida-like Hind Rostom) who tries to evade both the rail authorities and a sullen suitor (played by Chahine). At one point the girl sweeps her younger brother from the tracks as a train rushes by - no back projection...
...press bias toward Obama, and then suffered from some notably weak stage management. I'm not sure why anyone in McCainland thought a photo opportunity with Bush 41 was a good idea. Yes, he's far more popular than his son, and he displayed his usual charm during the brief press conference the two men had at the family seaside compound. But one of McCain's biggest hurdles in the race is the perception that his election would mean a third Bush term. Given that, is a pilgrimmage to Kennebunkport the best way to dispel the notion...
...while there's no Cigarette Smoking Man, and the Lone Gunman dweebs weren't invited to the reunion, Mulder and Scully must be heartened by the brief return of [spoiler alert!] their old boss Skinner (Mitch Pileggi). Just as important is the film's location in the Great White North. The first five seasons of The X Files were shot in British Columbia, which was a good fit for a show that wanted to leave its fans with a chill. In its pensiveness and good manners, its immersion in desolate wastes, its search for eccentricity, even dementia, behind the blandest...
...Kabbalah Misconceptions Your article "A Brief History of: Kabbalah" is a monument to the ignorance of today's popular culture. Kabbalah is the oral tradition of the mystical aspect of the Torah. Those who lack the oral tradition are at best pretenders. I hope the description of Madonna as a practitioner was a joke, because it can't be taken seriously. Kabbalah did not cohere around a book; the book was an attempt to record in writing a tradition that had been around for centuries. The Zohar may have been first published in the 13th century, but it was written...
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