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Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ has certainly done its bit to combat Christianity lite. The film's stance on atonement could best be described as substitutionary (that initial Isaiah quote sets the theme) with a strong dose of Catholic Passion piety (the very gory details), a pinch of exemplarism (the flashbacks to Jesus' teachings) and those sulfurous whiffs of the ancient good-vs.-evil model. In other words, an understanding almost as eclectic as the average American's. Will it convince anyone of any particular philosophy? Perhaps not, but it is a reminder that the question...
Newcomer Gregori Derangere is the perpetually bemused Frederic, an impoverished writer still in love with his childhood crush. She’s now the popular actress Viviane Denvers (Isabelle Adjani, who looks like she’s been given a severe dose of Botox). So intoxicating is Viviane’s hold on Frederic that he doesn’t mind being imprisoned for a crime she committed, later following her across France to Bordeaux’s Hotel Splendide. A crop of rabid aristocrats have also gathered at the Splendide to escape the madhouse of Paris and badger...
...Greenwich Village, and my outdated, less than tidy fashion sense, I wonder whether my refusal to consider any contemporary pop musician his equal is just a premature case of longing for the good old days, like a parent complaining about his kid’s music. A small dose of MTV or listening to the radio usually relieves such concerns pretty quickly, though, and I’m convinced that the decade since his death has, in an almost objective sense, been utter crap for music...
Clarke's dual personality makes no sense--unless you work in Washington. Aides passionately defend their boss one day, and after they resign, recall a very different story. Bob Kerrey, a 9/11 panel member and former Democratic Senator, says with a dose of sarcasm, "He's got everybody in positions of power trying to undermine him--by saying what? That when he was sent by his boss to say nice things about him, he did? Yeah, God, there's a crime. That's unusual in Washington." Clarke told the commission that when the White House asked...
...didn't tell people taking the drugs to stop cold turkey--that can be dangerous. Nor did it tell doctors to stop writing prescriptions for depressed patients. What the agency did say was that in the first few weeks after a patient starts taking an antidepressant, or when the dose is increased or decreased, care-givers and family members should watch closely for signs of increased anxiety, irritability, hostility, impulsivity or restlessness. The combination of severe depression and restlessness is especially dangerous, according to Dr. Adelaide Robb of the Children's National Medical Center. In the first weeks under medication...