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...Grilling a General Joe Klein eloquently expressed his disgust over the General David Petraeus dog-and-pony show before Congress [Sept. 24]. But Klein failed to mention the real reason the Senators didn't press Petraeus for legitimate answers: the military-industrial complex that President Dwight Eisenhower warned us about is a sinister weave of self-interest involving the nation's corporate, military and political powerhouses. Ken Hicks Lincoln University...
...Grilling a General Joe Klein eloquently expressed his disgust over the General David Petraeus dog and pony show before Congress [Sept. 24]. But Klein failed to mention the real reason the Senators didn't press Petraeus for legitimate answers: the military-industrial complex that President Dwight Eisenhower warned us about is a sinister weave of self-interest involving the nation's corporate, military and political powerhouses. Ken Hicks Lincoln University, Pennsylvania
...meets along the way, and although his own hybrid mountain-man philosophy comes off as juvenile and preachy at times, the spiritual effect of the movie is strong. Emile Hirsch, popularized by teen movies like “The Girl Next Door” and “Alpha Dog,” gives an amazing performance as the lead in this substantially more serious film. A dead-on match for McCandless, his persona on screen is moody enough to capture the societal angst of his character. With a bristly face and a slightly ironic tone, Hirsch might have...
...glowed with disarming, whispered proximity. While these full-lengths and a few interspersed EPs have found his homespun aesthetic—all tape hum and endearing errors—buried beneath ever-thickening layers of production, his new release, “The Shepherd’s Dog,” stands like a Hollywood blockbuster beside the backstage vaudeville of the catalogue that precedes it. Gone are the living-room fuzz and the steady solitude of a lone acoustic guitar. Gone, too, is the image of a storyteller, suspender-bound, murmuring myths on a sun-drenched porch. In some...
...never been to France—she meets a woman at a Jane Austen movie marathon. The two connect over their love of the author, and she invites Prudie to join her and some romantically challenged friends for some literary discussions. The crew includes Jocelyn (Bello) a lonely dog breeder, and Allegra, the recently-separated Sylvia’s lesbian daughter. Rounding out the group is Grigg (Dancy), a younger man obsessed with all things science fiction. Over the course of the year the group shares their life problems while struggling to understand how Austen would approach a modern world...