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This is what bad intelligence produces: a girl's dress, its embroidery stained dark red with blood, lying amid the rubble of a bombed-out building. Men wandering through the debris, gesturing to show where people were dancing when the bombs began to fall. And a U.S. special-forces soldier, who is said to have surveyed the scene and asked, "Why did we do this...
...ways her name could be used in headlines (KEYS TO SUCCESS, KEYS TO VICTORY, etc.), made it easy to overlook the four awards won by U2 and the surprising five won by the sound track to O Brother, Where Art Thou. The show proved relatively staid in behavior and dress, which means we'll have to wait until the Oscars for the real excess...
...Starr was due at the White House to take the testimony that would give Bartlett's one of its quotes, Hillary still didn't know that Starr had the goods on her husband. Did Clinton ever own up to her face-to-face, admit there was a stained blue dress? Klein raises the question whether Hillary's coldness was faked to make people think she was normal or whether she is normal and actually wanted to break his neck...
Here's another example the authors cite: hosting a retirement dinner for the boss at an expensive restaurant, a senior manager was appalled when not one of the young employees bothered to dress up. Although the office dress code is casual, he had assumed employees would know enough to freshen up for the occasion, if only as a sign of respect for their leader...
When the best moment of a movie focuses on the image of changing hemlines in a dress shop window to illustrate the passage of time, one has to wonder what the filmmakers were aiming for. In this tepid remake of The Time Machine (1960), all the enduring themes of the epic H.G. Wells novel have been repackaged into a spectacle reminiscent of a frivolous fashion trend. Yes, all the special effects are there, but not to great effect. This Time Machine falls flat on its carefully crafted digital...