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...second song, “The Island,” a three-part, 12-minute epic inspired by “The Tempest,” captures the spirit of the album: beautiful lyrics, a tragic narrative, and a wild variety of sounds. The first part, “Come and See,” rumbles along with a low, sinister guitar riff, building tension as Meloy describes an island shipwreck...
Most appalling of all is that the second half of the book and movie’s plot—Rob’s revisiting of his top five, all-time, desert island breakups—is condensed into one weak scene and approximately 30 seconds of musical interlude, during a song sung by the apparition of Bruce Springsteen. Hornby meditates on the nature of male self-centeredness and inability to grow up; Kitt and lyricist Amanda Green’s score simply lulls the audience into a bored stupor. (Quite literally, my date for the evening fell asleep before...
...circled the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor on the cloudy afternoon before heading uptown, where something went wrong. The plane's flight path was completely "legal" - operating in approved air space and under clear regulations. Small planes and helicopters are permitted to fly up and down Manhattan Island, over either the East River or the Hudson River to the west. Since much of the surrounding air space is the busiest in the U.S. - with hundreds of airliners and business jet flights going in and out of John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia, Newark International and Teterboro airports, small planes...
...much worse than a mistake - it was a huge strategic blunder that will take months if not years to unwind, that diverted the military's attention from finding Osama and stabilizing Afghanistan, that cost thousands of lives and eventually half a trillion dollars. Rather than creating an island of stability and freedom in the Middle East, the U.S. so far seems to have created islands of a different kind...
...incumbent is vulnerable, it could be critical to the Republicans' chances of keeping control of the Senate. Democrats, who currently have 45 seats, need to win six new seats to become the majority. And Democratic candidates are either tied or in the lead in Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Tennessee, all seats currently held by Republicans. But a loss in New Jersey by Menendez would virtually ensure that Republicans still retained control of Congress, even if they lost all those key races...