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...will inevitably judge him against the standard of his imposing predecessor, friend and boss. This small, unassuming white-haired figure who we will now and forever know as Benedict XVI told the piazza this evening that he was just a "simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord." Now he must begin to fill the role of pastor, of leader of the flock, a shepherd who can move the faithful and cast his own large shadow across this grand piazza, this blessed city, and a turbulent world outside...
...Shining,” “The Exorcist,” “Poltergeist,” “The Ring,” the video for Nine Inch Nails’ “Closer,” and, oddly enough, “The Lord of the Rings.” Play with beer...
Holy living spirit of the Lord, is this video incomprehensible. O-Zone is flying a cargo plane (the least sexy aircraft imaginable)? But sometimes they’re on the wing, caressing each other’s hairless chests and coming tantalizingly close to making out? And at arbitrary moments, they turn into absurdist comic-book pictures (my favorite is the one of two Indians playing a soccer match against a cowboy)? And in the end, it was all a dream? What...
...finish listening to the song, I experience the same horrifying prophecy. I see it becoming the opening-credits music for some Disney Channel Original Movie about a skinny (but surprisingly buxom) white 12-year-old and her meaningless problems at Palo Alto Junior High. “Sweet lord,” I think to myself, “this…this isn’t ‘original!’ This isn’t ‘challenging!’ It’s glossy! It’s mass-marketable! Maybe I just...
...theater, Arthur Kopit wrote the End of the World in 1984, a serious comedy in which one of the characters says, "So I sometimes think, now it's all over and we're up there in the big debriefing space in the sky, and the good Lord decides to hold a symposium 'cause he's curious: How did this thing happen? And everybody says, 'Hey, don't look at me, I didn't wanna do it!' The end result being that everyone realizes no one wanted to do it!' " Other signs of the times are noisier. Video games enable players...