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...into this complex, often darkly funny nexus of soccer's traditional role as metaphor for national and ethnic warfare and the forces of globalization that are changing the face of the game that New Republic writer Franklin Foer steps in his new book, "How Soccer Explains the World". It's a compelling and ambitious project that seeks to chart the impact of the crashing waves of globalization on the traditional tribal barriers that have long defined the culture of soccer, at least among fans if not on the field. And as an American, Foer must be further commended for venturing...
...tempting to mine the political metaphor here, since Kerry, the serious, cerebral Senator, is trying to steer a course to victory in a race against a President who is so often guided by his instincts. But that's not why Kerry seems so intent in an interview with TIME on setting the record straight about the whole blindfolded-sailing anecdote. Talk to Kerry about his childhood and he quickly goes on defense, making a point of describing his family as very normal and fun loving. When informed how consistently his friends and siblings described him as a serious...
...this makes the perfect setting for an America in which Rush Limbaugh can be a recovering druggie and conservative icon--an America that wants the binge and the purge, the sin and the penitence, all in one neon package. Until we find a better metaphor for our split moral personality, what happens in Vegas will stay ... on TV. --Reported by Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles
...scenes of oceanic chaos come surprising and strange tableaus, as when the whale somehow transgresses the bounds of the earth and floats in outer space. You don't read "Leviathan" so much as give in to its visceral sensation. Harder depicts the angry cetacean as, among other things, a metaphor for our fears of nature. But, while quite fascinating to look at, I have to draw the line at the wildly steep cover price. There's simply no justifying $35 (25 euros!) for a cardstock cover and two tones of color...
...baby to suckle. The directors, Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni, force nothing. They just stand at a decent distance recording a vanishing way of life (power lines and TV sets are already intruding). O.K., the endangered kid here is a calf, but viewers can deal with that little metaphor. Move over, Nanook of the North. Make room for a doleful dromedary--and for that rarest of commodities, a truly beautiful film the whole family ought to embrace...