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Neon Golden is repetitive. Along with Acher’s unaffected voice, the rhythm programming lends a steady, structured calm to the disc. But despite the songs’ tendency to mesh together, they never get boring. Rather, they cohere into an intriguingly dreamy, otherworldly sensation that pulsates with occasional surges of energy...
...principals give remarkable performances. Cassel in particular is excellent in his walking portrayal of masculine vengefulness. In the later scenes, he provides an interesting foil to Dupontel’s mild-mannered, sensitive Pierre, and Bellucci’s natural calm. Irreversible is certainly not a “character” movie, but it relies heavily on the looming generalizations it makes about its free-floating inhabitants, and about the agression inherent in male environments...
...childhood, which we misremember as carefree and innocent, is a time of roiling passions, anguish and terror. His show, the first version of which debuted in 1963, was his professional way of doing what he had done as a boy in Latrobe, Pa., when he played with puppets to calm himself after hearing scary news reports. And perhaps one reason his death touched adults so deeply is the feeling that Mister Rogers left us when we could especially use someone to teach us to manage our children's fears...
...President Bush promised $3.5 billion in disaster preparedness training funds to state and local governments. Most first responders, including firefighters, police officers and emergency medical technicians haven't seen a penny of that money, yet they are being asked to prepare for every conceivable threat - and to calm rising concern amidst heightened terror alerts...
...That leaves many hospital administrations, already hemmed in by drastic budget cuts, struggling to find ways to prepare their staffs for the unthinkable: large-scale biological and chemical attacks. Speed and calm, both critical in a state of emergency, can be taught without special gear, but training in certain techniques and life-saving equipment, like $25,000 protective suits, doesn't come cheap. That means most of America's hospitals are ill-prepared to face a major disaster...