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...issues, the Pope has shown an ability to preach eloquently about the core issues of modern existence - good and evil, charity and consumerism, and the slippery slope of instantaneous self-fulfillment. Ratzinger, says a top aide to a progressive European Cardinal, "has a brilliant way of summing up a concept in a single sentence. He can clean off the window of modern history, and give you a clear vision of what's wrong with our society." The new Pope's mission is the same one that has driven him since he was ordained in his native Bavaria. But Ratzinger...
...Memory of a Killer How's this for a high concept? A professional hit man (Jan Decleir) is suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's, but must still pursue one last bloody job. You can imagine what Hollywood might do with that idea. What you can't imagine is what Eric Van Looy, a gifted Belgian director does with it in his low key, persuasively realistic thriller. His killer, whose moral sense is completely intact, no matter what's going wrong with his less-than-total recall, learns that his wet work is designed to protect a ring...
...Gorillaz Demon Days; $13.49 Very few good albums make as bad a first impression as Demon Days. The cartoon characters on the front cover, the irritatingly meaningless track names (Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head) and the menacing prefatory oboes (oboes!) make it seem like a concept album about global warming for kids. Since the lyrics remain a bafflement, it might well be. But give the songs a fraction of the attention that went into making them, and you will begin to catch bits of good stuff from rock, rap, dance and dub. Then, magically, it all comes...
...know here, ladies are individuals whom they alternately fear and want to lose their virginity to. The men of “Scene” are of a different breed, entirely. They’re like young Cary Grants—they don’t understand the concept of a “women’s center,” but they love to “fete on” attractive Harvard women by cooking them gnocchi. They even attend the Westminster Dog Show and wear “dangerous” ties. How cool is that...
...handling of post-war Iraq. Bush's action effectively gives the State Department control over an area that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his minions ran in post-war Iraq. But before nightfall Thursday, Rumsfeld was fighting back. "I think we ought to try to avoid the nation-building concept," the defense chief told a Pentagon audience. "We ought to think of it as creating an environment that is hospitable for those people to be able to build their own nation and to fashion it in a way that fits them. That's what's going on in Afghanistan; that...