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...going to have to—I don’t want to say who it is but you are going to have to go through that and find a way to clean up my language too.” When questioned about the deleted passages, Rumsfeld got meta-ridiculous, trying to cover up the cover-up by dismissing the deleted passages as “some banter.” Apparently, when you’re the defense secretary, your conversations are so important that admitting that you shared secret war plans that you claim never to have finalized...
...abroad again—to Baghdad, where the United States was waging its most controversial war since the 1970s. There, in the weeks before a sign reading “Mission Accomplished” was strung up behind President Bush on the USS Lincoln, Carlson conducted a series of meta-interviews on his own, speaking with journalists from a wide range of news organizations about the thrills and trials, dangers and dilemmas of reporting live...
...faces a less-than-imposing panel of five student reporters on Tuesday. Cage was considered a few years back for the part of a big-screen Superman; calling Kaufman Clark Kent would be something of a stretch. For anyone who’s seen Kaufman’s 2002 meta masterpiece Adaptation, though, the resemblance can’t be denied. Here, in a sunlit conference room on the second floor of the Boston Ritz-Carlton, is living evidence that Cage was nearly perfect in his on-screen portrayal of that self-referential script’s author. Kaufman...
...city’s hard-headed pedestrians. And then there are those from even more exotic climes like that of, well, the rest of the urban United States, who discover that on the tortured “grid” of metropolitan Boston, taxicab rides are ever-unfolding, decidedly meta Borgesian enigmas. Cambridge is simply not the place for those who demand speedy or imaginative journeys...
...premise this complex and meta could easily turn into high-concept mush, but the many characters play off one another so deftly that instead of one obscuring the other, they illuminate the strange subtexts they have in common. At one point Moore and O'Neill bring in the mad scientist Dr. Moreau (as in The Island of--yet another bad movie), and the grotesque talking animals Moreau breeds become a sinister take on Mr. Toad from The Wind in the Willows and the talking rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, as well as--this is virtuosity in action, folks--the real...