Word: diversionism
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Zhang Yimou sounds defensive when he speaks of Hero as "a genre piece." The implication is: just a genre piece, a diversion, a long sword fight played by grownups. Perhaps the director is thinking of his last purely frivolous work, the 1989 Codename Cougar, a goofy skyjack thriller that outfitted...
“I haven’t made Bradlee yet, but my dear wait, when I do it will last for 2 days and 2 nights without talking it out,” Roberts wrote to Cyril. “‘Ken’ [Kenneth B. Day...
And here lies the true appeal of the Strokes: Given a twist of fate, a college rejection, or a lucky break, they could be you, or you could be them. Red-carpet celebrity as austere diversion is passé—Blind Date, American Idol or Becoming have brought...
Now that Iraq has won this round of diplomatic shilly-shallying, critics are calling on the administration to give up. But whatever the outcome of the U.N.’s diversion, war seems as likely as before. The official administration policy remains regime change, and Congress is on the...
The chorus of lies about Iraq that Bush’s team has assembled within the past months is not the least uncharacteristic. An administration whose very legitimacy rests on the assumption that elderly Florida Jews voted en masse for Pat Buchanan has quickly become a regime that can only...