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When Jack White isn't singing, he may be the most thoroughly unendurable rock star since Sting. White insists that he and drummer Meg White are brother and sister (they're actually ex-husband and wife); he also considers himself a modern bluesman, wears his red band uniform offstage and uses the liner notes of his new album, Elephant, for a jeremiad on "the death of the sweetheart." He's like a vigilante grad student holding a highlighter pen to your throat--except when he sings. Jack White can really sing...
...women like Laura Richardson have children? There is nothing admirable about a mother whose devotion to her job is so strong that it makes her leave her child behind in the care of friends. Richardson and her husband are so absorbed in their careers that their daughter is just something to be managed while they are away. I have no quarrel with women in the military--they have as much right as anyone else to get shot at--but I do have a problem with mothers who are irresponsible. JOAN COLAVECCHIO Atlantis...
There are certainly big laughs in A Mighty Wind. When Mickey’s model train-enthusiast husband asks Mitch whether or not he likes trains, Mitch replies, perplexed as always, “I took the bus.” But more often than not, the jokes are tired or run thin very quickly. Ed Begley, Jr. plays a Swede with deep Jewish roots, an idea that is only half-baked but is awkwardly employed several times. Even more unsettling is the uneven tone set by the relationship between Mitch and Mickey. While their genuine romantic tension is carefully...
...June 16 story reported that Hanssen’s wife told investigators that her husband confessed his crime to his priest. That priest was Bucciarelli who, according to Hanssen’s wife, eventually advised Hanssen not to turn himself into authorities but instead to give the dirty money to charity...
...withdrew the pear tart from the oven, I remembered a pair of women, the wives of men serving in Iraq, whom one of the television news programs had interviewed. The first woman said that she watched television news all day in the hope of hearing some news of her husband; if something happened to him, she said, she’d want to know right away. The second woman, cradling a days-old baby her husband hadn’t yet seen, said that she never watched television: it made the war too real...