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Jack Kerouac would have recognized the story line. A bright young kid from Main Street U.S.A. immerses himself in philosophy and art, has a cosmic revelation that leads him to question the system, and heads off down the highway to spread the news and stretch his newfound spiritual wings. Sadly, that's where the resemblance ends between the footloose Beat novelist and 21-year-old Lucas Helder, whose strange idea of raising America's consciousness was to plant explosives in heartland mailboxes...
...hatter might feel at home in the Wonderland of Iraq. The day is already growing hot as lines of ramshackle buses and black-windowed Mercedes jam the normally empty highway to Tikrit, the rural hometown of Saddam Hussein. It's April 28, Saddam's 65th birthday. Crowds of military men with fat moustaches, sheiks in flowing robes and farmers in shabby pants spill onto the expansive parade ground Saddam has built for special occasions like this. High-ranking guests fill up chairs in a large pseudohistorical reviewing stand where Mussolini would have felt at home...
...trout cost a pricey (for Cambodia) $13, but I would have paid that just for the hilltop view of the Gulf of Thailand. Be sure to prearrange a ride back to your guesthouse if you go at night because there's little traffic on this pitch-dark stretch of highway...
...most visually arresting of Cruz and Ortiz’s work are their designs of Olympic and soccer stadiums. The Madrid Community Sports Stadium, as viewed from the M-40 highway, positively erupts from the ground. A dramatic arc of stadium seating soars out of the grassy meadow, made all the more striking by its elevation above the compressed and linear stands below. The mass concrete is an architectural feat; it is as functional as it is an intense visual statement. The stadium obviously served as the inspiration for the main track and field stadium for the 2000 Sydney Olympics...
...ambitious films about people trying to stay in control when they are at work or out of it. The more conventional of the two, Changing Lanes, is about two men--slick lawyer Gavin (Ben Affleck) and harried insurance salesman Doyle (Samuel L. Jackson)--who collide on a Manhattan highway while rushing to respective court appointments. Gavin needs to secure judicial approval of his firm's right to manage a dead man's billions; Doyle hopes to win back his separated wife and his kids. Gavin heedlessly drives off, leaving Doyle with a disabled car as well as a folder crucial...