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...rock music.Just look at the track list. “This Is It,” “Wish You Were Here,” “She’s Lost Total Control”: if those song titles don’t sound strangely familiar, then you don’t listen to rock music. Parody’s the point.And Adams does it ridiculously well, getting nearly everyone right. There’s the Edge-like guitar of “So Alive”; Adams underscores the joke by imitating Bono?...
...must have seemed like a good idea: take a familiar tale—the Santa Claus story—and breathe some life into it by means of talented actors. Cast box office king Vince Vaughn as the protagonist, throw in a little Paul Giamatti, Kathy Bates, and Rachel Weisz to add some Oscar cred, and get Kevin Spacey to play the villain. You’ve gotta get Spacey to play the villain. The man put Gwyneth Paltrow’s head in a box in “Se7en,” so he’s sure...
...blue and black abstraction behind a case containing Mayan cylinder vases and Greek oil flasks. Ackley cites two original sites of inquiry: his desire to look at a Goya drawing next to a Hokusai print and his desire to consider Maya drawings on ceramic vessels next to more familiar ancient Greek drawings. Fittingly, they are also two of the most successful pairings. The bold red Mayan ‘drawing’ offsets the Grecian slighter white figure technique. It is often the similarities in works across time and place that are most intriguing. A case in the second gallery...
...April 1980, oil priceswent stratospheric, peaking atabout $100 a barrel, adjusted for inflation. Some of the causes might sound familiar. Constantly rising demand. Political crises in Iran and Iraq. Uncertainty about the extent of future reserves. And, of course, the edgy enthusiasm of commodities buyers, whose fears drive up the price...
Would that it were so. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), who first posed the question about waterboarding, didn’t introduce it as an academic debate. He asked Mukasey whether or not waterboarding was constitutional because of reports from officials familiar with the CIA’s interrogation practices that waterboarding was used by the CIA on three terrorism suspects...