Word: mattering
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...think that we were able to stand back from American culture, stand back from comic books, although we'd read them all our lives. I can't imagine that we could have done Watchmen if we hadn't had that detachment. You know? Love for the subject matter, love for the culture, but a detachment. And perhaps a slight British cynicism? Impressed, but not impressed...
...concluded that the nonagenarian now “could die happy”: as he explained, “there’s nothing else she could need or want to see.” One could hardly consider it a compliment to think an election—no matter how historic or symbolically meaningful—the only thing worth living...
...Wagner also warned that no matter how large of a contrast Obama’s platform seems from Bush’s, it is always difficult to gauge the political winds in Washington...
...Revenge of the Nerds” movies have taught us. And thus, their victory beer is cut short by the Dungeon and Dragons kids’ gory retaliation that recalls a certain scene from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” No matter the end result, though, the video fucking rocks. And if Al Gore ’69 could make recycling look half this cool, I might actually bring my empty beer cans down the stairs instead of just hurling them down the garbage chute. —Joshua J. Kearney
...befallen his works: indifference. Published in 1923, “The Prophet” enjoyed relative success among Gibran’s contemporaries and was rediscovered in the 60s as a spiritual guidebook written by an “Oriental wise man.” The truth of the matter, though, is that Gibran moved to Boston’s South End at the age of 12, having previously received no formal education in the Lebanon. Though he returned to Beirut for high school, he wrote more prodigiously in English than in Arabic, and “The Prophet?...