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...write about the return to the macho, John Wayne type of hero. What does that have to do with 9/11...
...phone calls, the empathy and curiosity about how I've been handling the Hindenburgian flameout of my beloved baseball team, the New York Mets. I'm O.K. Really. I've been through worse... even though this was, well, awful beyond imagining. The losses-seven straight to the crude, macho Phillies, then 12 out of 17 down the stretch. The incessant errors. The pitchers throwing cantaloupes to hitters who didn't belong in the majors. The mental errors that weren't scored as errors. The feeling, in the end, that no lead was safe because-no lead was safe. The realization...
...translator of the author. I took a hint from her. To me the boldness of the story was unprecedented, particularly against the backdrop of the most macho, glorious, patriotic war against the Japanese. It was very daring...
...movie has torrents of words and goes heavy on macho posturing; at times it suggests a ragged off-off-Broadway play. And De Palma is not going for subtlety here: Flake, the craziest of the squad members, has a Confederate flag for his bedspread - he's a lunatic Reb. But Redacted pretty successfully sustains a dual level of hysteria (in its content) and disinterest (in its film-long framing devices). It's an amazingly vigorous work for a filmmaker who turns 67 on Sept. 11, and his strongest cinematic and political statement at least since Casualties of War, his Vietnam...
...Angeles. Corson spends altogether too much time describing her floundering "battle with fish" (in his view, becoming a sushi chef is only slightly less difficult than becoming a surgeon, and requires a considerably stronger stomach). But his book is also peppered with fascinating diversions into the macho culture of sushi bars, the physiology of octopuses, and the cultivation of wasabi, a plant so rare that sushi restaurants almost always substitute a blend of mustard powder and horseradish...