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...Weinstein brothers for international release. Opening in the U.K. in September, it grossed $3 million, roughly three times its budget; late last month it was nominated for seven Australian Film Institute Awards, including Best Director and Original Screenplay for Mclean. Fueling the buzz were reports of hardcore violence, including finger slashings and execution-style murders, which managed to earn the film a respectable four and a half skulls on the gore connoisseur website bloody-disgusting.com...
...blame: those who spread the archives around even though they were obviously intended to be private, the reporting staff of The Crimson for bringing personal gossip into a public forum with insufficient regard to the feelings of its objects, and everyone else, myself included, who pointed a finger at Isis for making an honest mistake while failing to point one at those who were making a decidedly malicious error in judgment...
...girl sets down her extra-large brown Longchamp to examine the racks of blue satin dresses with delicate straps, shrunken tweed blazers, and 1930’s tops. Every so often, she will run her finger over one of the garments and coo with glee...
...quartet (including Mao's wife Jiang Qing) that was blamed for the Cultural Revolution, the decade of terror that Mao had unleashed and then nourished. Mao didn't count among the fiendish four, but when the plucky Chinese I encountered talked of the Gang, they would hold up five fingers, then fold the thumb back slowly to conform to the official co-conspirator count. The message was clear: Mao was that disappearing finger...
...obsessed with petty, vindictive politics that after the 1976 Tangshan earthquake killed hundreds of thousands of Chinese, he presided over a campaign against his rival Deng Xiaoping that demanded that rescuers halt their work to "denounce Deng on the ruins." Maybe it's time to get that fifth finger back in the air again...