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...Unlike “ER,” “House” was created by a layman, David Shore, and although the show is purportedly inspired by medical columns from The New York Times and The New Yorker, it isn’t exactly clear on what distant reality the show is based. Unlike in “ER,” where innumerable patients must be treated at a moment’s notice, House is able to spend days diagnosing one patient and doing several trillion dollars worth of tests. In real life, hundreds of people...
...record, it depicts the character looking for guidance from a mirror on the wall—except this mirror is fractured. rather than reassurance, J. Smith finds “a hundred shattered eyes in the looking glass / Staring back at me.” An eerily distorted distant-sounding guitar combines with the everpresent hi-hat cymbal to reinforce the milieu of gloom developed by the lyrics. “Broken Mirror” also marks a turning point in the album. The songs leading up to it are violent. The beginning of “Something, Anything?...
...With more than 90% of the vote tallied, Barkat won with 50.7% of the vote to Porush's 42.05%. A Jewish Russian billionaire and former arms dealer, Arcady Gyadamak, failed in his bid to turn out the city's Arabs, who traditionally boycott the elections. He placed a distant third in the polls with 3.51%, while a fourth candidate, a bar owner who campaigned to legalize marijuana, collected one half percent of the vote...
...took. Perhaps you took it for the glory of your country, or for the glory of your country estate. What you left untouched was either out of a vague sense of propriety, or for lack of logistical support, or for fear of running afoul of an unpredictable, often-distant authority...For centuries, plunder had been the rule rather than the exception, and the privileges of colonial tribute seemed to bestow similar entitlements...
...Bears will probably sweep, and there’s no way in hell they’re losing two. A shared title is the Crimson’s best hope, and it’s a distant hope at that...