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For more than a decade, Butte has been perversely proud of its strange monument. Townsfolk, in fact, celebrate the acid lake, which, deceptively green and picturesque, sparkles on postcards. The Chamber of Commerce runs a trolley to the viewing stand and gift shop that it operates high over the waters...
The immersion paid off. The atmospherics are right, down to the heraldic theme music, the swooping graphics and the story meetings ("Get me a show, people. Anything but same-sex marriage"). By keeping the pol-vs.-pol scenes brief, Markus has made the show specific enough to Nightline to satirize...
Coupland has mastered the art of the precisely timed witticism, the understatement and the random comic comparison. His language dances around its subjects, as when Richard discovers that the end of the world has come and "an adrenaline fang bites the rear of his neck." Coupland extends his metaphor of...
News Editors: Molly Hennessy-Fiske '99, Jal D. Mehta '99 Night Editors: Richard M. Burnes '99, Elizabeth S. Zuckerman '99 Assistant Night Editors: Stephanie K. Clifford '00, Amelia E. Morrow '99, Scott A. Resnick '01 Feature Editors: Peggy S. Chen '99 Story Editors: Richard M. Burns '99, Abby Y. Fung...
Just imagine how the history of the past 35 years might have been changed if, during the Cuban missile crisis, President John F. Kennedy had had to face not only Nikita Khrushchev but also a special prosecutor digging into his sex life. I am concerned that today the U.S. is...