Word: grimness
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...phrase—be the stuff of a great autobiographical novel, but what is perhaps too pedestrian for the film’s slate. Unless director Penny Marshal pulls out all cinematographic stops and carries the film on aesthetic sails alone, the prognosis for Riding in Cars looks grim. At the very least, their pusillanimous, even deceitful, refusal to submit to critical treatment will be a self-fulfilling prophesy of sorts. It is a telegraph to intelligent film consumers everywhere, an official self-abnegation: It well might behoove us pay heed to this preemptive funeral dirge that Columbia seems...
Despite last week?s grim headlines and dire FBI warnings, Americans are an increasingly optimistic bunch. After five days of air strikes against Taliban strongholds, public support for military action in Afghanistan remains on the rise (87 percent) as does the President?s approval rating (89 percent). More Americans (65 percent) are expressing confidence in "how things are going in this country" than at any time since the September 11th attacks...
...embodiment of “lyricism,” spitting out line after abstract line in ideal multi-syllabic, rapid-fire fashion. He makes his own beats, off-kilter pastiches of lo-fi drums and weird bass noises. Devoid of charisma, he is a bastion of grim determination and pure skills. And best of all, he is Underground—known only to the backpacking elite, his primary means of publicity for several years was the internet. Now on New York City’s Def Jux label—which has already made a name for itself with...
...Grim statistics According to INS officials, 16 out of the 19 terrorists involved in the September 11th hijackings arrived in the U.S. with legal visas. One of the men linked to the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center became a legal U.S. resident thanks to a provision similar...
...Just because Helmut Newton is 80 and has a major new show of his work doesn't mean he's getting soft. Hardly. One of his landscapes, The Grim Reaper, above, was shot for Absolut Vodka. The firm chose not to use it because it was deemed too dark for a mainstream audience. Newton recently sat down at the Barbican with a menagerie of onlookers - students, fans and perverts - for an interview...