Word: evils
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...Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences don't care that you liked The Dark Knight, which is the second biggest dollar-earner in movie history, and which kids and critics alike appreciated less as a live-action comic book than a triangular battle of stern Good, giggling Evil and two faces in between. Except for a Heath Ledger memorial citation (Supporting Actor), the film was shut out of all major award categories, taking seven other doorstop prizes like Sound Editing and Sound Mixing...
...hate and remedying its effects are central goals of “The Laramie Project.” The characters lead the audience to a number of realizations about the world of Laramie. As a play, “The Laramie Project” strives to reveal the evil that resides in America; by owning up to prejudice against homosexuality as a society, it suggests, this evil can hopefully be corrected. Most of the townspeople refuse to accept that Laramie is homophobic—it’s “just not that kind of place...
...anyone at the Pentagon who says otherwise should be fired.") But foreign policy developments seem destined to take some time, given the new President's proclivities: there will not be the macho kinetics of the Bush years nor the bang-bang nor the bellicose phrases like axis of evil. Obama was careful to avoid the phrase global war on terror in his Inaugural Address. Instead, there will be a steady drip-drip-drip of diplomacy, especially on neglected issues like nuclear proliferation. Even in the war zones, the Obama Administration will be talking relentlessly - trying to bring the nonextremist Taliban...
...jobs doesn't console Chrissy Schilling, a sixty-something educational psychologist and member of Sipson's No Third Runway Action Group (NOTRAG). "I'll be living on a construction site with the additional horror that a Spanish construction company will be bulldozing an English community," she says. "It's evil." Grupo Ferrovial, a Spanish builder, controls BAA, the body that owns Heathrow...
...average person tells three lies in 10 minutes of conversation," Lightman crisply informs us, and while Lie to Me balances him with a partner (Kelli Williams) so earnest and sweet that she eats pudding for breakfast, his jaded worldview is borne out. The characters lie for reasons good, evil and poignant; they lie in guilt and in innocence--but in the end, they lie and they lie. Lie to Me's pilot is brisk anthropological fun. But you may find yourself staring at your loved ones' faces a little too closely afterward...