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...careful what you wish for. Last year, at the midpoint of BSG's fourth and final season, the fleet landed on Earth to find a dead, rubble-strewn nuclear wasteland. It's as if Moses had crossed the desert only to find that the Promised Land had fallen into the ocean. The focus of humankind's survival strategy and religious mythology instantly turned to radioactive ash. (See the top 10 TV series...
With Las Vegas in the grips of its worst economy since the early 1980s, the storm that dumped four inches of snow on the desert metropolis in mid-December felt like piling on. The city's cocksure swagger is gone...
...School event, requests from mildly intoxicated guests hoping for one more drink will not be accommodated, as staff will be monitoring the open bar to ensure that it closes on time. Law school employees and their families will approach the sushi, pasta, meat, and desert stations by themselves this year, eliminating the need for waitstaff to pass around bite-sized food. ”Hip Treatment”—the band usually invited to perform at the holiday party—was also cut.Its replacement? A CD player.“I feel that we?...
...conservative whispers about then-candidate Barack Obama’s secret adherence to Islam, Maher parried the smears with one of his own, saying, “…You can’t be president if you practice a violent, Middle-Eastern religion and worship a genocidal desert god, which is why [Alaska Governor] Sarah Palin can’t be president...
...Dorsky says.“Alaya,” the oldest of the three, is distinct from the program’s bookends, focusing on the strangely captivating, almost hypnotic qualities of sand. The subject of every shot is either a macroscopic—an entire desert vibrating in the wind—or a microscopic—singular grains tumbling one over the other—perspective of sand. The grains themselves complement and enrich the grain-like quality of film, and the bluish filtering that Dorsky builds through use of internegatives gives each frame an alien, otherworldly quality...