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...biggest tourist attraction, a shiny visual shorthand for national ambitions: height, wealth, modernity, progress. Yet in Delano's picture, the towers appear faint and far away. They don't scrape the sky so much as leach into it. Maybe they're about to come into focus, maybe they'll fade out completely. We can't tell which...
...these extremes of optimism gradually faded into the dull grind of Harvard life, they—and we—began to fade into each other. It was as if we had switched breasts. Catizone started drinking Busch Lights. Schonberger started spending most of his waking hours in Lamont, blogging and watching music videos in the Language Resource Center. Like “Joey from ‘Friends’” [1] and that chimp in the movie “Ed” (perhaps one of the greatest sports films of all time), we began...
...Yitzhak Rabin's modest office in western Jerusalem expect their sessions with him to be strictly business. He is known to be abrupt, omitting from such visits so much as hello or goodbye. The office is hectic. Chants of angry Jewish settlers camped outside to protest the peace agreement fade in and out. A delegation of conservative Knesset members argue against giving weapons to the future Palestinian police force. But Rabin is calm, almost relaxed. Those who know him well say that since he signed the Declaration of Principles with Arafat, his manner has softened; he smiles more and grimaces...
LOSERS ROSS PEROT Still whiny, cranky and short, he becomes ever more irrelevant as his polls fall, his TV infomercial ratings fade and he flops in the NAFTA debate...
...Where Disney fails in “Little” seems to be where Disney always fails in recent years—the story and the script. It was not too long ago that a Disney movie was fast-paced and witty, even if the memory is starting to fade with more recent Disney catastrophes like “Brother Bear.” The tale—of a young chicken determined to save the world despite a tarnished reputation for over-exaggeration—is fine and even kind of sweet at times, but it creates pure apathy...