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Hence, seven songs into the Red House Painters' set, and with the apparently virile contingent beginning to become intolerably restless, a kid blurted out, "Would you play, 'Make Like Paper,' or at least something that rocks?'" Not missing a beat, Kozelek responded, "Who the Hell did you think you were coming to see?" But this misunderstanding, or missed expectation, epitomizes the contradiction that existed between the venue and the band on Sunday night, and also the reason why it became more awkward and discomfiting to experience Red House Painters live, in spite of their bravura performances, than in the cold...
...wanted a meeting in Switzerland earlier than previously scheduled. Seasoned spies say Nicholson's method is almost quaint. An up-to-the-minute agent today would have cellular phones and portable computer linkups. "Nobody would use those techniques today unless you were an awful agent or cutting corners like hell," says David Whipple, president of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers...
...doing. Students practice infiltrating a hostile country at a fake border, with watchtowers, guards and police dogs. Instructors simulate enemy capture by breaking into dorm rooms in the middle of the night and carrying off trainees to a bare room for days of intense interrogation. It all ends with "hell week," in which students travel to a U.S. city to stage a covert-operations exercise. fbi agents are brought in to play the part of foreign security officers who try to nab the students...
...there is a tendency, even among respectable commentators, to treat the U.S. military's mushrooming sex-abuse scandals as a case of runaway hormones and boyish high jinks. WAR IS HELL, notes a New York Times headline, adding, wittily, SO IS REGULATING SEX. The article, which glides blithely from the topic of "relationships" to rape, quotes an Assistant Secretary of Defense explaining the debacle in terms of a "natural attraction between men and women." "Attraction?" "Sex?" Excuse me, fellows, but what goes on in your bedrooms...
...whispers to her onetime conquest Picard, "You can't begin to imagine the life you denied yourself," she opens the movie up to the ache of memory--to a good man's second thoughts when he considers the road not taken, even if it's the road to Hell...