Word: glorious
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...Norm, who dreams of the Gulf's mythical grouper hole; their rebel son Will, who violently opposes the local mine; and his mentor, Mozzie Fishman, who leads convoys of similarly disenchanted souls (and later Angel Day) to Dreaming sites across the state. Around them swirl stories large and small, glorious and grotesque, of epic quests and seeping social wounds, but cauterizing it all is the writer's earthy humor. "I've had a lifetime of stories and humor," says Wright, who was raised on her grandmother's tales of the bush, "and it's one of our strongest points...
...interviewing candidates is a must (feels good to interview, and reject, the jerk who put your sophomore paper up for review). If you pick correctly, you’ll land a tutor who will invite you up to her flat and stuff you with crumpets, Oolong, and glorious, glorious knowledge. If you’re unlucky (or lazy) you will wind up with a disgruntled, underfed grad student who’d rather heat his apartment with your paper drafts than read them. Senior year is when “Hist and Lit” turns into...
...festival. And the hottest Toronto ticket, the buzz bomb of the Great White North, is another Brit-American mockumentary that is just as politically pointed as Death of a President but with a wildly raucous, satiric tone. It is Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, whose guide is a purported TV host and "sixth most famous man in Kazakhstan" of the former Soviet Union. Borat is the nom de guerrilla-humor of Sacha Baron Cohen, aka Ali G. - as HBO viewers know, and many millions more will, when this deeply sick, utterly irresistible film...
...frightening or funny thing is that the movie's likely audience mix of hip slummers and Jackass fans will soon fall in love with the imaginary version. Travel agents, prepare to be swamped with requests for trips to Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Real Kazakhstan, cart out some chickens, rapists and whores. But you might want to hold the Jews...
...distance between the famous person and the average viewer. But great pop music erases distance. It takes our dumbest secret thoughts (He doesn't like me! No one has ever loved as deeply as I am loving right now!) and, with three chords and some magic dust, renders them glorious and universal...