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...week ago today, “Hardball” host Chris Matthews turned his gaze on Hilary L. Levey ’02 and demanded intently, “What’s your problem with this speech by this guy, whatever-his-name...
Marcelo Bielsa, Argentina's cerebral coach, has spent a great deal of his time lately staring at the ground. This is not the defensive, deferential gesture of a shy man reluctant to look you in the eye. No, this is the intense, searching gaze of a man who expects at any moment to find something valuable?treasure, car keys, enlightenment?two feet in front of his shoes. As his World Cup squad played back-to-back friendly matches against Japanese club sides last Tuesday, Bielsa paced along the sideline, glaring at the carefully manicured grass like some demented botanist...
There's a delicious secret shared by veteran journalists reporting on Kashmir. It's called Butt's Houseboats. The chance for a correspondent to return to Gulam Butt's stately pine-paneled cabins on the shores of Dal Lake, gaze up at the snowy Himalayas and feast under chandeliers on minced goat curry, spiced spinach and cardamom tea, has for years helped keep the conflict near the top of the news agenda. The guest book, filled with enraptured reporters' reviews, contains some of the most earnest writing many of these war hacks have ever produced. "Once more, an island...
...town that taught us that no place is beyond terrorism's reach. They come from every state in the union, climbing to the crest of Skyline Road to see what remains of the now legendary Flight 93: absolutely nothing. With the crater long ago filled in, they can only gaze out on a rolling field that protrudes like a bald spot from a grove of hemlocks. "The horror of the event and the beauty of the place are so stark," says Edward Linenthal, the author of The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory, who visited Shanksville in December...
...others get marooned in alternate universes. ... Lines are delivered in unison, there are awkwardly failed attempts at overlapping dialogue, some actors appear to be reciting by rote or reading cue cards.... Left stranded in scenes that are grossly overextended, his performers strike fantastic poses, stare affectingly into space, or gaze casually off-camera. - Hoberman, "Bad Movies...