Word: claps
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...desire. But let's not go there. One Night at McCool's is, finally, quite a brilliant exercise in style. First-time director Harald Zwart, a Norwegian music-video guy, has a marvelously cool eye for the slightly surreal aspects of American bad taste. Lamps that light when you clap your hands, the chrome and leather modernism of an arriviste's pad--they are the objective correlatives of his characters' endless seducibility, their inability to imagine the stupid consequences of ill-considered passion...
...groundbreaking Arizona statute barring their imprisonment. McNally's sentences are about rehabilitation, even repentance. Part shrink, part scold, McNally rules with revivalist fervor. "You're going to get a lot out of this journey," she tells a woman sentenced to counseling and urine testing. The audience is invited to clap--and they do so, loudly--as she praises a man who has stayed clean for six weeks and hands him free tickets to the local science museum. The young redhead gets community service: washing windows in his church...
...racial profiling as if he hadn't spoken at Bob Jones University and she hadn't posed for pictures while smiling and frisking a black man. From the podium, Bush too sent messages. His attempts at bipartisanship included announcing new funds to fight cancer and making everybody clap for cancer-stricken John Moakly. Several Congressmen, evidently confused at this point, yelled bravo as if they wanted an encore. These people were probably named Strom...
Their cheers included the lines "Clap once for revolution, clap twice for opposition," and the refrain "We can rock the streets...
...Dirty Bastard is incarcerated b) Syphilis rates are falling c) Scabies is getting all the press d) The clap-on, clap-off device really does work...