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...peak. Auerbach riffed his way colossally into “Thickfreakness,” the title track of their 2003 release, Carney beat furiously on his spare drum kit, and the tone was set for the rest of the night. Auerbach, if not a guitar god then surely a demi-god, let loose even more than on the band’s four full-length albums, taking the unchained punch of the band’s songs to a whole new level. Classic favorites like “Set You Free” and a cover of Chuck Berry?...
...cars or boats. Prabhakaran's masterstroke, one that prefigured jihadi terrorism, was to instill an almost religious reverence for sacrifice and martyrdom in his army?all his fighters wear cyanide capsules around their necks. For the Tigers, many of whom are recruited as children, Prabhakaran is akin to a demi-god. Photographs of his chubby, affable-looking image hang on almost every wall in Tiger territory, and stories about the kindness and wisdom of The Leader abound. Not an articulate man, Prabhakaran, 51, uses secrecy to build his mystique, rarely making public appearances. Many analysts see him as the single...
...above all, Tiger leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran's real genius was to build a culture of sacrifice and martyrdom around his guerrilla force, with himself as demi-god leader - an almost exact forerunner of jihadi terrorism. In July 2002 TIME spent a few days with a female Tamil Tiger suicide squad at their base in northern Sri Lanka, and got a firsthand understanding of how he has been so successful...
...suicide bomber, and who utters the line--from beneath a full-face wooden mask that he never takes off--"Blowing up a building can change the world"? A movie written and produced by the Wachowski brothers, the cyberauteurs who created The Matrix? Starring Natalie Portman, shaved as bald as Demi Moore in G.I. Jane...
...just finished shooting a film in which you play Ashton Kutcher to Michelle Pfeiffer's Demi Moore. How'd it go? Yeah, that was really, really rough. It's by Amy Heckerling, who did Clueless. It's a romantic comedy, older-woman-younger-guy thing. Amy puts an unconventional spin on a conventional movie premise...