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...down or pigeonhole, as full of contradictions as his movies, Altman became a specialist in both two movie forms: epic and the intimate. Nashville, a Doomsday kaleidoscope set to country music, splashed the whole South with his wily cynicism; Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson said that American history was a lie dressed up in showbiz frills; and A Wedding, his black spray-paint on a four-tier nuptial cake, contained 48 characters, for no better reason than that Nashville had had 24. But there was a quieter, artsier side to Altman, evident...
...seem to be reappearing. Asked in the Rose Garden in June if he saw a parallel between Iraq and Vietnam, the President replied curtly, "No." But he is now embracing the inevitable, and he answered yes last week when asked roughly the same question at the Sheraton Hanoi. "One lesson is, is that we tend to want there to be instant success in the world," he said. "And the task in Iraq is going to take a while...
Fast Food Nation Fox Searchlight Directed by Richard Linklater 1 Star If “Super-Size Me” is the documentary version of street-corner proselytizing against evil corporate junk food, “Fast Food Nation” is its object-lesson counterpart, tediously preaching to the proverbial choir. Director Richard Linklater’s much-anticipated feature film “Fast Food Nation” is not a documentary. Rather, it is a fictional account that dramatizes the nonfiction book by the same name, written by Eric Schlosser, the film’s co-author...
...talk about faith and appear to be centrist and progressive at the same time, (see Obama, Barack), Democrats will remain mired in a never-ending debate of left vs. center, Netroots vs. DLC, populist vs. business-friendly. Of course, they can take some comfort from one other election lesson: as Republicans found out this year, having an agenda everyone agrees on isn't the same thing as accomplishing it - or winning on Election...
...French schoolteachers have to spend 18 hours per week teaching in their classrooms; grading papers, preparing lesson plans and meeting with parents and students is supposed to bring their weekly charge up to 35 hours or more. It's true that some teachers seek supplemental income as private tutors, but most do not, and teachers' union officials, while leery of being manipulated by the anonymous leak, have expressed their disagreement with Royal's proposal. In practical terms alone, they say, few French schools provide any space for teachers to help students outside class...