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...wild sex with a male professional wrestler. Meanwhile, they’re both screaming and veins are bulging out of their necks. If you could somehow distill the purified testosterone from both of those men and put it into digital film, you would have the basic ingredients of this near-perfect trailer. Every time I watch the Spartan king yell “Madness? This—is—SPARTA!” I feel as though my balls have been ripped off. And I like it. Black Snake Moan Celluloid Gold This is two minutes and twenty five...
...wrote this in 1965. Since then, the comic-book collectibles market has exploded. In 2005, according to the Wall Street Journal, "A near-perfect 'Action Comics' No. 1, the book that launched Superman, lists for $485,000, up from $200,000 five years ago." That's nearly a 5 million percent markup from the 1938 street price of 10 cents. In 2002 Nicolas Cage, who had taken his stage name from Luke Cage, the first black comic-book super hero, got $1.68 million for his comics collection, which included an issue that introduced Batman's sidekick Robin and another that...
...years, everyone wants to do it themselves, make moves on the blue line,” he said. “We lost the puck about five times on the blue line in the third period, because everyone wants to be Wayne Gretzky.”This defeat brings near-perfect symmetry to Harvard’s play this weekend. On Friday night, it was the Crimson who defeated Quinnipiac 4-2 despite surrendering two goals to the Bobcats in the first 11 minutes.The Crimson returns to the ice tomorrow night against Vermont at the Bright Hockey Center...
...candidates' only debate was Thursday night, and it was a near-perfect distillation of their parties' national messages. Pryce opened by reminding voters of what her clout in Washington had meant to the district - a flood wall for West Columbus, a new tower for the airport, a veterans clinic - but within two minutes was warning of al Qaeda's threat to kill 4 million Americans. "This is a threat that we will live with until we defeat the terrorists," she said. "The central front in the war on terror is Iraq." Kilroy framed the election as a referendum not only...
Ascending to the stage brought about no change in his temperament. Crouched over the keyboard, he leaned heavily on his chords, pressing his weight into them as he murmured into the microphone. Later, he would go on to play a near-perfect set, surpassing expectations and revealing a few surprising talents not exhibited on his studio albums, the latest of which, “Post-War,” he is on tour promoting. Still, for a few minutes, in the milky darkness of the classic theatre, he was just another audience member – just a regular...