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...shooting and screwing spree across the arid French landscape. Yet for all its graphic excesses, or because of them, Baise-moi is a serious and original work. It starkly portrays a desperation born of disgust, and then an exultation at lurching into a brief, sociopathic freedom. The movie has something else: a charismatic performance from Anderson--she of the sewer mouth and seraphic face...
...Alliance foot soldier, hit in the back, lay doubled over in pain. Others rained blows on a captured jihadist as he was duckwalked toward a jeep. Occasionally a small black puff and a crack would mark the explosion of a rocket-propelled grenade. But the fiercest fighting, a remarkably brief exchange of recoilless rifle and mortar, had tapered off shortly before; and by 4:30 the brigade rolled over what for two years had been the immovable front line in this war. By dusk all resistance had disappeared, and the northerners camped for the night in the shattered ruins...
...state was far grander," writes Naipaul, "and this made him feel, in a small part of his heart, that the Kings and Queens of England were impostors." London's doors do not open easily. Attempts to contact his famous namesake are all met with the same brief note: "Dear Willie Chandran, It was nice getting your letter. I have very nice memories of India, and it is always nice hearing from Indian friends. Yours very sincerely...
...begin with. Maybe it is a refreshing absence of cant not to pay lip service to education, but this seems to me to be the least Harvard should expect from its applicants, even athletes recruited to play sports. In the meantime we have Jesse E. Lane’s brief achievements on the ice to salute: three games, one assist and four penalties...
...Vanity in Afghanistan can be a form of rebellion. In Kabul, women would allow a bit of lace trimming to show at the edge of their burqas, and they spent a lot of money on fancy shoes imported from Iran. There was even a brief period in which women wore white socks, before these were banned by the Taliban as too provocative...