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...more than 50,000 pieces of Gulag-era art, tracking them down in hiding places all over the Soviet Union and smuggling them to his desert sanctuary. Today, this trove can be experienced for a $4 entrance fee - or rather a fragment can, because there is no space to display it all. (Another fraction can be viewed at the museum's old premises nearby.) Ironically, it turned out that Savitsky had less to fear from the authorities - who came to know of his work but turned a blind eye - than he did from the art he was saving. The harsh...
Adelman and Perle probably put on a better display of chagrin when they are 20 minutes late for a dinner party than they have managed to come up with so far in concluding that maybe the war was not such a great idea after all. "Just say 'oops' and get out" might be an excellent policy for the U.S. at this stage in the Iraq war. But it's not sufficient for the people who got us into...
...brutality is on display in the first scene, which hews to the previous films' text by providing a daring exploit and a minor league kill before the stylized opening credits. This time, though, the fatal confrontation is shown in monochrome and takes place in a Saw-style bathroom. The killing is grimly realistic, as if to suggest that this Bond operates in the real world of real pain and has wounds that may never heal. A later scene, with a naked Bond getting his testicles whipped, inevitably calls up Abu Ghraib atrocities (and should have earned the film...
...clash between gays and the keepers of Jerusalem's three faiths - in a rare display of solidarity, rabbis, priests and Muslim clerics in the holy city all united against the parade - was averted because of security fears. (Hatred of homosexuality, it seems, is the one thing that unites Islam, Judaism and Christianity in the fractious Holy City...
...would be wrong to write off the Free Staters entirely, though. Those who have moved have been putting on a display of rambunctious, representative democracy. Some prefer civil disobedience and street demonstrations: one was recently arrested at a local IRS office handing out pamphlets that said, "Hitler had a revenue service too." Although the Free State Project doesn't endorse political candidates, some members have been making competitive runs for local office, including some staunch home-schooling advocates who have been elected to local school boards. With one state legislator for every 3,000 or so citizens (the best ratio...