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...makes American Gangster, which is rather leisurely paced but richly detailed in the way it pursues the minutiae of conspicuous criminality as well as consumption, a more disturbing movie than its makers may have intended. I don't think it attains the Godfather level - it lacks dark passion and grand-scale irony - but it is an intelligent, well-made and seductive movie...
...Jefferson, who hailed humble "cultivators of the earth" as America's "most valuable" and "most virtuous" citizens. Politicians still paint American Gothic portraits of the country folk who toil in the soil to grow our food and fiber. But at the Husker Harvest Days farm show in September in Grand Island, Neb., it was clear how far American agriculture had come from the days when Cornhuskers husked corn by hand...
...Fall Classics. Last off-season, the Sox overpaid for two free agents, outfielder J.D. Drew (five years, $70 million) and Japanese pitching phenom Daisuke Matsuzaka (six years, $52 million), just like the damn Yankees usually do. These players, however, did produce in the post-season: Drew's grand slam against the Cleveland Indians in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series helped propel the Sox past the Tribe; Matsuzaka's clutch pitching, and hitting, in Game 3 against the Colorado Rockies helped Boston complete the sweep...
...slow idea was what grabbed the headlines out of a sweeping new agenda set out by the SPD at a convention this weekend. Since Merkel edged into a power at the head of a "grand coalition" of the CDU and the SPD two years ago, the Social Democrats have been divided between centrist and left-leaning factions. The party has also been forced to watch as Merkel and the CDU co-opted some of the party's traditional turf on questions ranging from human rights to family benefits. The new platform demonstrably shifts the party to the left, a move...
...fast-paced repetition of the opening theme, the beat from the second movement reappeared and escalated into a triumphant sound in the combined third and fourth movements, “Allegro.” The entire orchestra united into one common, uplifting sound that appropriately led into a grand and united finale. The battle between the instruments that was present in the first movement had beautifully melted away. Yannatos, filled with the energy of the music, was an instrument himself. Twitching, twisting, and spinning his arms to the flow of Beethoven’s masterpiece, he was truly amazing...