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...Americans are wonderfully confident about things - about ourselves, our kids, about our plans; I sometimes think it's our greatest asset. But it can also be our greatest weakness. That confidence was one of the things that helped fool many of us into thinking we could march into Iraq and make everything swell. It could now fool us into thinking that it's going to be relatively easy to get out. Coming or going, our storied confidence blinds us to all kinds of problems we can't see or imagine. And Iraq, more than most places, is full of those...
...weird for weird’s sake” has the side-effect of demonizing the average for the sin of simply being normal while neglecting just how strange, and beautiful, everyday life can often be. Bottom Line: Don’t let the film’s pretensions fool you: “Fur” is a predictable and empty Hollywood vehicle, and by the time Diane slowly shaves the dying Lionel’s body in the film’s ostensible climax, you’ll find yourself realizing that maybe normal isn?...
...that he’s the poster boy for everything annoying about hip-hop: The name-dropping, the derivative beats and lyrics, the bitching, the lack of subtlety are all crappy trends… the list goes on. And the worst part is hearing them come from a whiny fool whose greatest wish is to have dropped 13 years ago. —Reviewer J. Samuel Abbott can be reached at abbott@fas.harvard.edu...
...Alone starts out as your basic country stalking song, but with the melody of a rock power ballad. Strait's vocals swing from flash-free, honky-tonk lows to top-of-his-range, quavering highs. Then the song gets funny--"I've wrote her letters signed I was a fool/ She wrote me back saying go find a stool/ And driiiiiiiiink one"--and Strait laughs and cries in his beer. It's a sure...
...Grandmother Look Fool You" The 65-year-old G.O.P. grandma is running for Salt Lake County (Utah) council. She slapped her face and slogan on billboards to label herself old before her opponent could...