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...western, like the Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone films of the 1960s and '70s, which revitalized the genre and pretty much wore it out; this one is ordinary and borderline ornery. It lacks the verve of 3:10 to Yuma, the sullen sweep of Brad Pitt's Jesse James epic, the deranged energy of Sukiyaki Western Django, to name just three oaters from last year. But in its fidelity to western verities, Appaloosa may seem radical to today's viewers. At a time when images in all visual media bombard the brain, the western - the one original American film form...
...didn't play many solos or sing lead on anything you're likely to remember. He had just two moments to himself in the songwriting sun: the echo-heavy ballad Us and Them and the wordless The Great Gig in the Sky from Pink Floyd's sad epic Dark Side of the Moon. Shy, gentle and very private, Wright was proof that not every rock star feels the need to act like one. "In the welter of arguments about who or what was Pink Floyd, Rick's enormous input was frequently forgotten," said Wright's bandmate David Gilmour...
...Midwest. He studied philosophy at Amherst College and then Harvard, and when he was only 24, he published his first novel, The Broom of the System. In 1996 he vaulted into the upper ranks of the literary world with Infinite Jest, his 1,079-page (and 388-footnote) meta-epic of tennis, drug addiction, art, terrorism and loneliness set in a future when each year is known by the name of its corporate sponsor (e.g., the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar). Infinite Jest was the quintessence of 1990s literary maximalism, and it became instant required reading. Enough with...
...well as an epic romance, this is a story of homes, homelessness and what it means to be an outsider. In several instances in the novel, the ownership or loss of home and property opens the way for events of crucial emotional significance. "Home is where one starts from," wrote T.S. Eliot. But Roy's novel upends that idea with infinitely sympathetic elegance: What if home is something that you make rather than what you are given...
...long felt the financial sector is bloated,” he said. “It’s had epic profits for two decades. It was bound to shrink...