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...wildly popular Buena Vista Social Club . Wenders' simple and similar premise of filming an American guitarist's effort to congregate the aging legends of Afro-Cuban music spawned a CD and an international concert, and Calle 54's American release seems to coincide with waning interest in BVSC. Miramax needn't have bothered, because the two are markedly different in intention, tone, texture and substance. The two films, while achieving the same goal of glorifying musical forms hereto marginalised by North American audiences, execute in noticeably different manners...
...obtain Vicodin and other painkillers, you needn't slink off to the rough side of town for a date with your dealer--although you could. Last month Ventura County, Calif., issued a grand jury indictment alleging that the Hell's Angels used a youth gang called the Outfit to sell more than 700,000 Valium and Vicodin tablets throughout the region--all supplied, according to the charge, by an Air Force clinic employee. But you can also ask your doctor for the pills, and he may not scrutinize too carefully the validity of your request...
Perhaps it's about accountability. We, who have the freedom to skew our stories--needn't you see our faces? Needn't you look into our eyes as we tell you why Bush's tax plan isn't going to work or why we're ready to single-handedly reclaim the Alaskan refuge? Are you checking for falsehood, listening for trembling in our voice...
...this gem, the scientist and noted essayist trains a wry wit and a highly perceptive eye on his two-plus decades of observing baboon behavior in Kenya. Sidesplitting vignettes about monkey politics alternate with equally hilarious tales of misadventure on the backroads of East and Central Africa. Sciencephobes needn't be worried: there's nary a page of neuroendocrinology in the book. A supporting cast of tribal misfits, postcolonial weirdos and marginally psychotic truck drivers will keep you chuckling from start to finish...
...Christians needn't be entirely smug on the subject of destroying holy images. Iconoclasm (literally, the breaking of images) was the name of an eighth- and ninth-century movement in the Eastern church against the worship of holy pictures. In 753, the Emperor Constantine summoned a great synod to forbid image-worship forever. The synod declared it blasphemous to represent, by the dead materials of paint and carved stone, those who live with Christ. The bishops damned image-worshipers as idolators (and there is a commandment about that, is there not?). Pictures of the saints in churches were replaced...