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...result is a gorgeous, dreamlike movie that's almost too perfect. Every frame is neat and composed, like an oil painting, not a hair or a grain of sand out of place. All noise and dissonance have been digitally eliminated. It's beautiful, but it's more beautiful than it is real. Movies are invigorated by the tension between the director and reality, the struggle of the artist to tame the reluctant, intractable world, and that tension is missing from 300. If you've ever seen Hearts of Darkness, the documentary of the disastrous campaign to make a very different...
...chemicals. But the Blomgrens don't grow fruit for the CSA. They buy it from other local growers, and most of them use sprays because of the humidity. Ted's hens were free-range--they strutted around eating the grass behind his house. But pastured chickens still require some grain feed, and the grain Ted bought was mostly conventionally grown, industrially processed corn...
...come to class in rabbit costumes, Norberg made sure to wear bunny ears the next week. Both Scott and Hanzich call him “inspirational” and “a trailblazer.” “He wasn’t going against the grain so much as he was going with whatever grain was inside of him,” Scott said.Norberg is bringing his eccentricity to the business world. Because of his faith he chooses not to drink. He knows many people who make the same choice but find it restricts their weekend plans...
...Stop Believing,’” she said.And thus, an obsession was born. Generation X had the apathy of the grunge movement, but today’s youth is happy to indulge passionately and wholeheartedly—as long as they can do so with a grain of salt. We laugh about our poor choices, triumphantly exulting in our drunken mistakes and guilty pleasures. We like the political commentary of “South Park” and “Chappelle’s Show,” but we really watch them for the ridiculous...
...understandable temptation to erect trade barriers,” Rubin told the committee. “However, I believe that that would be deeply harmful.” Summers echoed Rubin’s message, saying that it was vital to “go with the grain rather than against the grain of the market system that has produced all this potential.” Both said it was essential to address inequality to combat an increasing shift towards protectionism. However, some of the committee members such as Sen. James Webb (D-Va.), who once wrote that globalization...