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...film, which opens in Australia this week ahead of a February release in New Zealand, has raised as much ire as it has gooseflesh. Loosely based on a number of Australian crime stories, including the notorious series of "backpacker murders" committed by Ivan Milat between 1989 and 1992, the film is seen by some as flirting insensitively with the traumas of true crime. The film begins with the statement, "Wolf Creek is based on actual events?," and Mclean does nothing to make audiences doubt his tale's veracity. "When we show it in the U.S. and France," he says, with...
...very name of the U.S. customary units’ progenitor should be enough to elicit the contempt and ire of Harvard students, but alas, for the most part they remain blissfully unconcerned. There is no student group lobbying for inclusive and internationalist measurements (although I’m told that some members on the Curricular Review are critical of the Imperial system’s “approaches to measuring”). No one seems to be concerned that Harvard students measure the volume of beer in gallons and barrels, not in liters. No one bats an eye when...
...sorts of obnoxious noises while adults tried futilely to calm us down—a situation not at all dissimilar from the Hong Kong on a typical weekend night.Of course now we’re too mature and politically-active to rebel against our parents, instead directing our ire toward “the Man.” Darn him and his rigid hours, we say. Yet, “the Man” has watched and learned from our foolish nighttime antics and he has won. Business owners saw the long lines at Felipe’s and Pinocchio?...
...wrestler automatically as a villain simply because he was identified as a Russian,” Cantor observes. And the World Wrestling Federation’s new bad-boy of the early 1990s, a pro-apartheid white South African character named Colonel DeBeers, failed to rouse audiences’ ire...
...bank, then, seems to be a bit passé. Besides, I usually reserve my rants for more pressing concerns (see “Get That Cell Phone Out of My Face,” 3/3/05). But there is one new financial institution on Mass. Ave. that has drawn my ire with unprecedented preposterousness...