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...time of the attack, Suu Kyi had been attracting large and increasingly bold crowds. The enthusiastic response from ethnic areas was especially galling to the generals, because it challenged their long-cherished notion that only the Burmese military can unite the country's disparate ethnic groups. The regime's emphatic response to this rising euphoria was an assault so calculating and sadistic that skull fragments and clumps of bloody hair littered the road where it took place. Suu Kyi was detained with about a hundred of her party members, including elderly deputy Tin Oo; both...
...Gondry got the idea from Pierre Bismuth, an artist friend, about four years ago. "I had the thought that one day it would be possible to erase a specific memory," Bismuth says. "I thought it would be useful if you broke up with your girlfriend or boyfriend." The notion stirred Gondry, who's single and claims "not much success" in love. The two built a basic story that the king of quirk, Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich), embellished into a script. Carrey and Winslet signed on, but they had never worked with Gondry before and his unorthodox style took some...
...should be with any music. It’s great when a song conjures something beyond itself, reminds you of experiences and affects you like that. But to privilege those phenomena over what you’re actually hearing is to place yourself above any notion of actual objectivity, the mistake that most middle-aged rock critics, and kids stuck in the Sixties, seem to make...
...notion of an Indian-American “fusion culture,” one that is rapidly gaining exposure in the United States, has an undeniable appeal...
...cold minimalism that dominated the preceding decades. "It's the old caveman thing. We like reflections of ourselves," says Moss. "We can never get too far away from the recognition in these objects of human involvement." For example, KitchenAid's new Pro Line is designed to reinforce the notion that it's the cook, not the machine, that's making the difference in the kitchen. The displays on the espresso maker are analog, and the handles are robust and chunky. Still, it functions like high technology. This fusion of nostalgic design and up-to-the-minute functionality--often dubbed retro...