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...part of its series “Real/Reel: The Fashioning of Reality.” Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter star in this 1999 film based on the best-selling novel by Chuck Palahniuk that acts as a modern-day morality tale warning of the decay of society. It tells of one man’s (Norton) life full of single serving dinners, cheap furniture catalogs and self-help meetings for illnesses he doesn’t have. He finds salvation in his new friend Tyler Durden (Pitt) and the founding of a fight club that soon...
...source of my gloom as I trail American forces into Iraq. This melancholy is rooted in the apparent hopelessness of the environment. Anything more then a cursory glimpse around reveals that the Iraqi people, at least those living in this region, are completely beaten. Signs of physical decay and the population's broken spirits lie everywhere...
...world. But things have changed dramatically since the heyday of the Bastille. No longer can you find French prisoners stuffed away into dungeons in the bowels of weighty edifices. Even the French penal colonies of last century have withered away to nothing. The French prison has been in decay for years, and despite the embarrassment of recent days, there is no reason to think that French prisons will improve...
...world's few inhabited forts, and is home to some 2,000 people. But since its heyday in the 16th and 17th centuries, when it was the last filling station for colossal caravans traveling the Silk Route, Jaisalmer has been in decline. And over the past two decades, the decay has accelerated. Hundreds of historic buildings have crumbled like shortbread and dozens more are rapidly deteriorating. The arrival of thousands of tourists every year has also exacerbated the ruin...
Mann read an excerpt from the play, contrasting a police officer who decries the moral decay of his town with “Sister Boom Boom,” a gay man dressed as a Catholic nun—both people that Mann interviewed...