Word: jarring
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...fliers were printed by something called the Fellowship Tract League, and their fiery language would have made the dead Puritans in Salem's old burial ground proud. "Thousands of Degrees Hot! And Not a Drop of Water," it warned the parade of Halloween sinners, dressed like Jar-Jar Binks and headed to Hell...
...work that leads directly into the inside of Malkovich's brain. He becomes famous Malkovich for fifteen minutes (get it?), and is then spit out onto the side of the New Jersey Turnpike. It is to the film's credit that this bizarre, supernatural turn of events doesn't jar the logical tone of the movie at all. Getting inside Malkovich's head isn't even the twistiest twist that Being John Malkovich has to offer...
...Carrie helps her tear off the brown postal paper. Harriet has sent her a jar of pink body glitter and some brightly colored nail polish, rolled up in two Guam T-shirts. Carrie can't stop laughing. She holds a T-shirt up to her chest and bats her eyelashes...
...other politicians are discovering, making outrageous public statements about organized religion isn't the only way to be an anti-politician. Republican presidential frontrunner George W. Bush's style of being the anti-Clinton is to say "fuck" a lot in front of reporters. The idea, apparently, is to jar us all by how little he cares about his image, in stark contrast to the relentlessly image-conscious Clinton. Bush also wants us to know that, unlike the legendarily wonkish president, he isn't a nerd. Has the number of abortions fallen during his governorship? "I don't know, probably...
...hard to imagine the reason for that Russian stonewall; when half a nation?s economy is controlled by organized crime, it?s inevitable that government officials ? including those at the Central Bank ? have a finger or two (or an arm, up to the shoulder) in the cookie jar. The Russians, say U.S. investigators, just want to find out where the U.S. paper trail is leading before they fill in any of the blanks. Said former CIA counterterrorism chief Vincent Cannistraro told USA Today: "They're trying to find out what it is we know before they play...