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...identity, never asking the audience for their sympathy, only for their understanding.Naturally, Van Damme also does what he does best: kicks some ass. The plot of the movie takes a backseat to its biographical exploration, but it still helps to advance Van Damme’s character and dissect the fame that is slowly slipping away from him. The film opens with Van Damme in mid-scene on the set of a low budget action film. He gets into it with the foreign director over an issue with the poor quality of the set, to which the director replies...
...real point of MNN isn't to provide the kind of complexity and depth you might get on a website like grist.org, where greener-than-thou commenters will dissect the minutiae of a carbon tax. Instead, it's to offer simplicity. That's on display in one of the site's more innovative features, "Translating Uncle Sam," in which MNN's bloggers take raw data from government websites - whose comprehensiveness is eclipsed only by their impenetrability - and put it into user-friendly terms. Given the way people twist data, knotting them like Atlanta traffic, in environmental debates - especially those about...
...originally thought I was going to take ten photographs and dissect them very carefully and talk about the making of them. I just felt that I wanted to cover more ground and I decided to answer every question I thought anyone could ever have about the work of today so that involved bringing in the more famous pictures like John and Yoko and Demi Moore. The book started off with taking the most talked about pictures that I had done. Then I started to add pictures that were stepping stones in learning how to take pictures, so that...
...sees herself is more powerful than what she sees in magazines. But here's the rub: what she sees in the media does affect that self-image, especially in terms of her body. Some experts recommend media-literacy classes--as early as kindergarten. "Children need to learn how to dissect and understand this pervasive aspect of their environment," says Gigi Durham, author of The Lolita Effect, "just as they learn to understand the seasons or Newton's laws of motion...
...question: If most of those million fleeing Republicans have become tenuous independents, then who are those 700,000 new Democrats? That is what the DNC is trying to find out. "They are young, they are female, they are new to the process," said a consultant who is trying to dissect this new group for the party elders. "Most of them have come out of nowhere...