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...filmmakers need to reach beyond recounting history to give a fresh perspective, which this film never manages. The smartest guys in the room will probably steer clear of this one unless they’re sincerely interested in Enron and want to see about 12 seconds of strobe-lit nipples...
...second-semester junior when Victor M. Kumin ’43, an Army engineer on furlough from Los Alamos, took her on a blind date to the now-defunct Hotel Lafayette—then a swank destination for the college crowd on account of its dimly-lit bar. She would later learn that her soon-to-be-husband had been one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s “soldier scientists,” at work on the atomic bomb. The couple married...
...Paul's in this world torn by lust for power and neglect of human rights. S. Faiyazuddin Ahmad, President Leicester Council of Faiths Leicester, England It was amazing how the Polish people showed appreciation for what John Paul II did for our country. The night after he died, I lit a candle as a tribute to his 26 years of service. When I put it in the window of my flat, I saw hundreds of other candles in neighboring buildings. The Pope was instrumental in ending communism in the 1980s, and thanks to him Poland became a much better nation...
...amazing how the Polish people showed appreciation for what John Paul II did for our country. The night after he died, I lit a candle as a tribute to his 26 years of service. When I put it in the window of my flat, I saw hundreds of other candles in nearby buildings. The Pope was instrumental in ending communism in the 1980s, and thanks to him Poland became a better nation...
When Bridget Jones and Carrie Bradshaw stepped onto the cultural scene at the dawn of the millennium, the chick-lit heroine became one of the most powerful icons around. Thanks to these two, the marriageable female of a certain class—always a popular subject for writers and artists—has acquired a career, a shopping fixation, and an astounding ability to get herself into embarrassing situations. She likes to label the men in her life: “the emotional fuckwit” in Bridget’s case, or “the fuck-buddy?...