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...United Nations before war-war begins. President George W. Bush, played with implacable self-righteousness by Keith Carradine, is of a different mind. As imagined by David Hare in Stuff Happens, the only voice Bush hears or heeds belongs to God, who is in a bellicose mood. Both recent history and the laws of dramaturgy tell us, even before the beginning of the play--in its U.S. premiere at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum--how this debate between unequals will come out; in life or onstage, single-minded passion will always trump tense dispassion...
...fans who vote on each one-on-one dance-off with the volume of their cheers. A documentary that is all action, no narration, Rize lobs stereotype grenades--political (blacks in whiteface) and social (Tommy in clown garb at a funeral service)--that are defused by the genial mood. This would be an uplifting film even without some of the most amazingly agitated dancing since the Nicholas Brothers hung up their taps. Throw in that preternatural terpsichore, and Rize rises further. It is nothing less than a call to emotional levitation...
After the new measures are approved, the mood in al-Qahtani's interrogation booth changes dramatically. The interrogation sessions lengthen. The quizzing now starts at midnight, and when Detainee 063 dozes off, interrogators rouse him by dripping water on his head or playing Christina Aguilera music. According to the log, his handlers at one point perform a puppet show "satirizing the detainee's involvement with al-Qaeda." He is taken to a new interrogation booth, which is decorated with pictures of 9/11 victims, American flags and red lights. He has to stand for the playing of the U.S. national anthem...
Undergraduates headed out to the Kerry rally in Boston’s Copley Square, where drizzling skies and a chilly wind reflected an increasingly cloudy mood in the Democratic camp. Performances by the Black Eyed Peas and others briefly buoyed the crowd, but spirits dwindled as the night wore on. By midnight, a defeat was all but certain...
...There is in our department, as in many, a wide range of opinions about the President, but I do not think that the general mood is one of enthusiasm for either style or substance of his administration,” writes Sollors, who was the single tenured Af Am professor at Harvard when Gates came from Duke...