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...relationship problems in general, still draw a laugh today. More than mindless entertainment, Behn’s play serves as a vehicle to challenge conventional conceptions of relationships. The play raises even more serious issues when, towards the end, it temporarily abandons its light-hearted tone and explores darker issues of rape and violence...
...move forward, hope for the best. He talks about evil like one who believes in it but is still surprised when he encounters it. Vice President Dick Cheney is a stern shadow President in night-vision goggles, and last week his job was to prepare us for darker days to come. "We have to assume there will be more attacks," he said. "And for the first time in our history, we will probably suffer more casualties here at home in America than will our troops overseas...
...minutes after the attack began, I am a different person. I know what it feels like to have my wedding ring yanked from my finger, to anticipate the feel of bullets piercing my skin as my captor forced me to a kneeling position and then put a second, even darker, sack over the first. When it is finally over, I look at my fellow course members from Amnesty International with heightened concern. They will be leaving in a few days for Pakistan and may even go to Afghanistan. When we part, all I can do is wish them luck...
...attempt to control his lust for the girls. The girl in the first panel appears in an oddly sexual manner, consistent with the theme of lust. The temptation that the girls represent is thus posited as what makes boys cry. The young man’s panel is darker, less colorful than the other two, and it is angled to make him look farther from the girls than he really is. His separation signals his dilemma...
...favorites “Last Nite,” “Someday” and “Hard to Explain.” To describe the music, of course, there are the already clichéd Velvet Underground comparisons, but I maintain that they sound like a darker, dirtier, more anxious and volatile version of Weezer. They have precise, sonically taut arrangements with undertones of straight-up 50s rock ‘n roll. Or think of it this way: If Rivers Cuomo is the guy you would bring home to your mother, Julian Casablancas...