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torture • latest euphemism for - "aggressive interrogation" - is one-upped by "an escalating series of coercive methods" • the Onion questions whether using a minotaur to gore detainees is a form of • Tom Tomorrow points out the grotesquerie of U.S. citizens refusing to acknowledge the commission of in their name...
...Mostly what Capricorn does is send people to his many dungeons, which are loaded with discards from other Silvertongue incidents, including some of Frank Baum's flying monkeys, a Minotaur and that white unicorn. This cast traipses in and out of more small dark rooms than someone looking for a studio apartment in New York City. And when they're not being thrown in a dungeon, they're either fleeing from the castle or trying to sneak back in. Whatever they seek, they generally find, but then forget...
...show's themes and Chiklis' brooding, minotaur-like physicality invite comparison with that Urtext of male antiheroes, The Sopranos. But our relationship with Mackey is more complicated--and self-implicating--than ours was with Tony Soprano. Tony was roguish and funny; we even rooted for him against other Mob bosses. But we had more distance from him because he was a criminal and a sociopath, beyond redemption and beyond our experience...
...while “Role Models” is indeed formulaic, the film is saved by a number of hilariously memorable side characters—and by a healthy dose of heart. As the film begins, Danny and Wheeler are working as representatives of an energy drink company called Minotaur. Despite having worked together for many years, the two men are polar opposites. Danny is a perpetually irked, cynical 35-year-old who yells at Starbucks baristas and tests the patience of his lawyer girlfriend, Beth (Elizabeth Banks). Wheeler, on the other hand, is a carefree and sex-crazed party...
...enlightened our circle about how to whoosh and bong each other. As we practiced, he added, “It’s kind of boring at first because it’s only whoosh and bong—but then you get to the lonely minotaur and crazy labyrinth of death!” The circle burst out laughing. Lester innocently asked, “Why are you laughing?” Just as during “Whoosh and Bong,” our group of 10 freshmen—formerly strangers to one another—grew...