Word: intentions
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...thousand false alarms from an anxious nation are an exquisite diversion for those intent on mayhem; the police cannot be everywhere at once, and there is only so much they can do to button down the cities. Overworked cops who had already been on high alert worked even harder as the frightened calls poured in. "We are at risk of being overwhelmed," says a spokesman for the Kentucky division of emergency management. There are metal detectors at the Liberty Bell; Denver canceled its New Year's Eve celebrations; Ohio called off a corn-husking festival. In Washington, where lawmakers...
...cicadas screech in the pine tree towering over the museum's outdoor cafE, Miyazaki stalks off to find more cigarettes and for a while it's not clear he'll return. He does, though, intent on discussing why he makes films, not how. "In dreams you search for a better self," he says, lighting up again. "Don Quixote says much the same thing. We must do all we can to seek truth. This is the responsibility of the filmmaker, not to make a mountain of money...
...common desire to dominate is presented intriguingly in “Shirts vs. Skins.” The three panels belonging to this piece show two rival basketball teams, one shirtless and facing the viewer, the other wearing shirts and facing the rival team. The intent expressions on the faces of the adolescent boys show their desire to control the situation and win against the opposing team. The teams are positioned in relationship to the viewer in such a way that the viewer feels as if she were part of the team with shirts on. This strange warping of reality...
...while the arch-villain, Jafar, speaks with a (bad) Arab accent. It does not appear, though, that this bias is malicious—merely cultural. The Siege in 1998 was an eerie prediction of Arab-American internment after terrorist attacks in New York, and the film’s intent seemed to be to show that this was not a reasonable response to a terrorist attack. But the final twist of the movie was that the ostensibly good Middle Eastern Arab did turn out to be a crazy terrorist in the end. The Arab-American cop was all right...
...officers arrested Damien Aimes of Washington Street in Cambridge for the following charges: assault with a deadly weapon, discharging a firearm in city limits, illegal carrying of a firearm, unlawful possession of a firearm, possesion of drug paraphernalia, possesion with intent to distribute drugs in a school zone and unlawful possesion of ammunition...