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...women, while The Spirit of the Hunan People argues that the courage of that province's denizens "earns them the respect of their enemies." The most popular song of the past two years compares people in the region near North Korea to the Communist Party's most revered soldier-hero, Lei Feng. And China's most popular sitcom producer, Ping Da, says he plans to shoot a series of new programs set in cities around China, "full of inside jokes that people from elsewhere won't get." Even Tom and Jerry - who are mute in the original - will stay vocal...
...blown up wins. It's your basic claustrophobic nightmare, which theater and cinema have astutely exploited--from Sartre's No Exit and nearly any Pinter play or Roman Polanski movie to the old cliff-hanger serials, where the four walls of a cell would close in on our hero. Anyone under pressure has felt this contraction: the frazzled mind cowering, shrinking, as reality ruthlessly applies the clamps...
...vague generality under fire, take the typical example, “Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme.” The question is asked, “Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?” Our hero replies by opening his essay with, “David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If these be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it.” This generality expert has already taken his position...
...poster in response to the NYT story: “Cry me a river. I don’t want to have to be trying to rip a terrorists [sic] throat out at 35K feet because she didn’t want to be touched.” Hero complex aside, this view would seem to be logically correct; after all, isn’t being groped a small price to pay for the security of the American People? Except we’re not getting what we paid for. First of all, searching the wrong people is a waste...
...also wrapped the play in historical perspective, noting the sorry plight of Jews in 1596 Venice. This makes Shylock's demand for a pound of Christian flesh his righteous revenge for all the spittle and slander he has absorbed. Pacino emphasizes Shylock's gnomish outsider status: the victim as hero. And though he has a few oratorical geysers, he mostly understates his venom. Pacino seems to recall, from his early Michael Corleone days, the power of whispered menace...