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...give a tour, just like I used to do in high school. Here our teacher stopped class so we could run outside and look at rare rainbow-colored clouds. On this hill, we enacted elaborate pageants for Michelmas, a feast day the rest of the world forgot in the middle ages. The whole school watched a vast papier-mâché dragon, animated by the entire sixth grade, vanquished by sword-wielding first graders...
...flaw that colors everything in the film, however, is Taymor’s hesitant and wobbly direction. While the ballsy Titus knew well that it was visually arresting and never forgot, Frida oscillates nervously between an intense visual palette and boring displays of ho-hum period cinematography and horrendously contrived narrative set-ups that bore more than they evoke. Early in the film, the trolley crash that renders Kahlo periodically unable to walk is shot and edited with a shocking visceral quality and a brash artistic confidence. Immediately after, Taymor gives us a shamelessly trippy, grotesque animated sequence that quite...
...Josh Silver, a bank-lending activist, recently refinanced his home in the Washington area, and while his $300 monthly savings pleased him, errors in his closing documents sent him into a rage. There was a $400 overcharge for property-tax and homeowner's-insurance escrow. The bank "forgot" a $200 credit promised to him when he signed up for automatic debit payments. And at closing, he was asked to sign off on an insurance policy to pay his mortgage should he die - the cost of which had been written into his settlement papers...
While Clinton was quick to indirectly blame the first Bush administration for not aiding the Shi’ites in 1991, he conveniently forgot to mention his administration’s litany of failings in Iraq. Those include the following: the decision in 1993 to prohibit the Iraqi National Congress (INC)—an umbrella group of resistance forces—from using American funds to buy weapons, the abandonment of the INC just before its March 1995 offensive against the Iraqi army, the refusal to sponsor a peace-monitoring force to unite hostile Kurdish factions and the withdrawal...
Bush also makes it clear that he will not allow any nation to surpass the United States’ overwhelming military strength. While it is in America’s interest to maintain the dominance of its armed forces, the statement was unnecessarily provocative towards other powerful nations. Bush forgot his own campaign plank—that the United States should be powerful, yet humble. A little less aggression would have been much better than threatening the rest of the world with assurances of America’s lasting military preeminence...