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...they watch the big Hollywood movies; for edification they go, in much smaller numbers, to the American indies, which have replaced foreign films as the higher-IQ supplement. Another reason is, frankly, that the foreign stuff isn't as exciting as it once was. The preferred art-film mode is dour minimalism, in which glum folks surrender to cosmic torpor in front of a static camera. Even as the pulse of world entertainment, from pop movies to video games to YouTube clips, is revving up, the pedigreed European film is getting slower and grimmer...
...important details, but here's the more important big picture: McCain isn't posturing on this issue. He really wants to fix the problem. He broke with his party on climate change after the 2000 election, when the Republican mainstream, including Bush, was still in full-blown denial mode. Pestered during the New Hampshire primary by a global warming activist who called himself Captain Climate and dressed in a red cape and superhero tights, McCain soon began holding hearings on climate science and traveling to the Arctic to see the damage for himself. "It was a period of real self...
...They were not shy at all about showing him in full crisis mode, much more unsanitized stuff than would normally be allowed," says Beijing-based scholar Russell Leigh Moses, who added that the scenes were clearly aimed at reassuring viewers that Wen and his fellow Communist Party leaders were making the utmost effort to bring relief to victims as rapidly as possible. "The government's legitimacy is very much dependent on its ability to show that it can care for and look after ordinary Chinese, and this case is one where they have clearly made a decision to make absolutely...
...Faithfull. It’s surprising, then, that Marianne Faithfull may be the only artist in history whose actual music doesn’t get referenced in “When Life Gives You Lemons.” “Your Glasshouse” starts like a Depeche Mode song, and “You” has an underlying tune reminiscent of The Smiths. On “Puppets,” Slug sings from the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage.” Atmosphere even has a song called “Wild Wild...
...happening and continues to play with his toys. When he has to sell all of his toys, he first makes a mental list, but once it is time to put them in a box, he does it without thought or hesitation. The narrative reflects this selective mode of memory. Each of Djata’s stories is atomized; when he refers to something that happened in an earlier chapter, he does so as if it were far in the past even though the reader knows that, chronologically, it was a recent occurrence. Djata’s society as a whole...