Word: exceptionality
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...Even that may not be enough to sway an Israeli public openly doubtful that the war has been won. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has seen his poll numbers take a dive similar to those of President Bush, from upward of 70 percent approval to figures in the low 40s - except that while Bush's slide occurred over the four years that followed 9/11, Olmert's came in just four weeks of war. The Prime Minister has looked skittish and indecisive, caught between the impulses of escalation and restraint, and apparently more reliant on signals from Washington than Israeli leaders prefer...
...Instead, Stone plays the material straight, and safe. He stays totally on-message. Except for the image of a TV news screen with President Bush vowing to "hunt down" those responsible for the attack, the movie has no hints of the America that will emerge from the attacks. This is a micro, not macro, view of 9/11...
...love split screen. I didn't know that until recently, when I became that most pathetic of cultural victims - a 24 addict. All those paranoids simultaneously plotting one another's destruction in far-flung locations, yet unaware of what, specifically, the other guys and gals are up?except activities that will, by the end of the episode, result in one or more individuals being prettily tied up and awaiting some high-tech unpleasantness to be continued (but not necessarily concluded) the following Monday. As a technique, split screen has been around almost since the beginning of the movies. Although...
...could see on the smooth water was the uncertain reflection of the Sea Hawk’s lights and the faraway glow of five shrimp trawlers like this one. I looped my leg over the edge of the boat, breathed in the breeze that was still hot past midnight. Except for Chris, the captain, and his deck hand Jacqui, I was alone and miles away from the shores of Florida.Chris was as small as a boy, though he was 41. On another shrimp boat, a battery exploded in his face. When he pulled out a piece of plastic, his right...
...attended his concert at Philadelphia's Town Hall. It would be his last performance in my town except for three appearances at Central Magistrates Court after a drug bust. (Prescription drugs; he was acquitted.) And in 1964 I drove up to New York to see his Easter weekend stint at the Village Theater (later the Fillmore East). Four shows, all 11,000 tickets sold; I caught the late show, midnight, on Saturday. He did plenty of material about his legal vexations, but Lenny was still a spieler who could mesmerize his audience for two hours plus ? a great gig. (There...