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...preparation used for leg-waxing in the salon) testifies to the power of American popular culture at least briefly to override the endless traumas of our ever-more-violent political lives. Even Anne Frank filled a scrapbook with pictures of movie stars. And we are all too familiar with photographs of young men, roaming the ruined streets of Baghdad carrying Kalashnikovs, but wearing Rolling Stone T-shirts and Nikes. You can, if you will, deplore disconnects of this kind - whatever became of the tragic sense of life? - or you can find a perverse sort of hope in them. Even slightly...
...visual style, the movie has a formal rigor familiar to the serious European cinema: just about every scene, no matter how long, is shot without cutting. (The nearly two-hour film has fewer than 70 shots.) That's often an enervating strategy, but here it works marvelously, either forcing two characters together as reluctant conspirators or isolating each in his or her predicament. Bebe's examination of Gabi, and his insertion of the syringe, is accomplished in one harrowing shot. There's a bustling scene, at the birthday party of Otilia's boyfriend's mother, that becomes a kind...
...that all people who try to eat locally walk around the supermarket with a GPS unit. I still enjoy bananas and coffee, and I have no problem drinking beer that comes from - gasp! - California. But for me and many others, the point of eating locally is to become more familiar with our food. It's nice to hear a farmer say that my rib-eye steak came from a cow that ate local pasture grass rather than a corn-and-antibiotic slurry. Ben Kraft, ANN ARBOR, MICH...
...critics insisted that Romney's millions, superior get-out-the-vote effort, and command of economic issues would erase the slim lead McCain had eked out in Florida. The day after Tuesday's convincing win, McCain's enemies will surely be looking for new ways to frame these same familiar complaints. But a look at the exit polls suggests that many of the assumptions that made McCain's candidacy look shaky from afar have dissolved in the heat of a competitive race...
...labor, which could be looking for a new candidate to rally behind, now that John Edwards' star has faded. "To have him offer such a powerful endorsement, I think, will mean a lot," Obama told me in an interview. "Obviously, there are people who are still getting familiar with me nationwide. Their vision of this day will make them give me a close look...