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...Keeping it real was key to Dillon's vision. Influenced by sources as varied as Samuel Fuller's low-budget House of Bamboo and Joseph Conrad's nightmarish novel Heart of Darkness, City of Ghosts is the first Western movie to capture the atmosphere of post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia: the land-mine casualties, the lawless streets and the gentle Buddhist spirit that provides whatever strength remains in the country. "I didn't want to make a film that was like a postcard," says Dillon. "That's why I didn't shoot at Angkor?you can see that on the Travel...
...even if Wall Street greets the end-is-near point of this Gulf War like it did the last one - with a roaring rally - the table of uncertainty won?t be cleared all at once. Even discounting for now some of the more nightmarish scenarios - an outbreak of terrorism worldwide in response to the war, a chemical or biological outburst from a cornered Saddam and the attendant response from the U.S. - few expect a U.S. rebuilding of Iraq to be any less persistently messy than it has been in Afghanistan - and unlike Afghanistan, every tremor in the next Iraq will...
...chaos visited on lower Manhattan that day. While there have been many memoir comix about 9/11 (see TIME.comix reviews: part one; part two), most of them recount the mediated experience of those outside of ground zero. "Tuesday" gives us the first detailed, longform story of living through that nightmarish experience...
...Republicans, by contrast, are completely sincere about wanting Lott to be gone, but they are generally insincere about the reason. They want him to be gone for the same reason the Democrats want him to stay: the sooner he's gone, the sooner this nightmarish issue goes away. No one can doubt that Republicans are saddened by the public revelation that Lott shares the views of Strom Thurmond. Yet there are good reasons to doubt that all of them are as offended as they let on, starting with the fact that Thurmond himself has been a Republican Senator in recent...
Grumet-Morris rebounded from a nightmarish performance last year against BU, when the Terriers tore through him for eight goals in a lopsided win last November. The goalie has made gigantic strides since the inconsistent start to his college career and has turned in several straight quality games this season...