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...matters; that a chance collision of two individuals can make a difference in how millions of the rest of us are enfranchised, enriched, entertained. John and Paul made music. Billie Jean and Bobby made sport. Fred and Ginger made love on their feet. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made conquest seem an act of comradeship. Read on, and recall...
...your flags. The fearsome steel coil of tanks and artillery and Bradley fighting vehicles was told to enter enemy territory humbly, stripped of all banners, including the Stars and Stripes. This seemed slightly un-American--we're flag crazed to the point of silliness--and entirely appropriate; liberation, not conquest, was the stated purpose of the war. And so, when the Marines captured their first town, Umm Qasr, and the American flag was reflexively raised in triumph, it was quickly hauled down. In the early hours of Operation Iraqi Freedom, its diplomacy was as stunning as its precision: from...
...your flags. The fearsome steel coil of tanks and artillery and Bradley fighting vehicles was told to enter enemy territory humbly, stripped of all banners, including the Stars and Stripes. This seemed slightly un-American - we're flag crazed to the point of silliness - and entirely appropriate; liberation, not conquest, was the stated purpose of the war. And so, when the Marines captured their first town, Umm Qasr, and the American flag was reflexively raised in triumph, it was quickly hauled down. In the early hours of Operation Iraqi Freedom, its diplomacy was as stunning as its precision: from...
...American films of the past half-century, it was snubbed by Oscar, many critics complain, because of its violence. Set in Rio's notorious Cidade de Deus favela and narrated by a teen who manages to sidestep the ubiquitous criminal life there, it chronicles the slum's two-decade conquest by young narco-hoodlums. Its hopscotch storyline is as full of surprises as it is void of heroes, leading some to call it a Brazilian Goodfellas; but Meirelles and Lund have choreographed something more than a stylized gangsters' ball. "Last year 68 boys were killed in Cidade de Deus alone...
Monica Bellucci's conquest of America begins this week at a theater near you. --Reported by Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles