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When a TV show advertises itself as "magical" or "surreal," be afraid. Since David Lynch's Twin Peaks, the supposedly bizarre has evolved its own cliches. These were best satirized in the 1995 movie Living in Oblivion, in which Steve Buscemi plays a director who casts a dwarf in a dream sequence, only to have the little person mock him. "The only place I've seen dwarfs in dreams is in stupid movies like this!" the tiny actor says. "Oh, make it weird, put a dwarf...
...darker past. One need only look at the Howard government's refusal to apologize to the "stolen generation" of Aborigines to understand that. The detention centers described in From Nothing to Zero are nothing more than convenient oubliettes allowing most Australians to consign refugees to dusty oblivion, aided by the fact that the media are not allowed to visit refugee detention centers. You would have expected protests about that?but there have hardly been any. In a vast, sunburned land where the beer is always cold and the surf forever up, darkness is more easily avoided than confronted...
...mutilation imposed on them by nature." If the twins were willing to die rather than continue living attached to each other, that's hardly different from people who prefer death to being trapped in a diseased or dysfunctional body. There are those who do not believe that death is oblivion. Patrick Ivers Laramie...
...save the French fry from culinary oblivion, drastic changes are in the works. "To say they are panicking out in Idaho is a gross understatement," says Joseph Hotchkiss, chairman of Cornell University's Department of Food Sciences. Potato growers and the processing companies that make fries held a summit in July to figure out how to rev up potato sales. Manufacturers were reluctant to reveal what they have in the pipeline, but growers want to aggressively promote a more healthful potato. No wonder. The price of a 100lb. bag of russets has dropped to $2 from $8 a year...
David Baker had been working for six years to lift his sport from near oblivion when he heard the words he longed to hear. It was the first Sunday of Gulf War II, and NBC anchor Tom Brokaw was wrapping up his report on the latest round of U.S. bombings in Iraq. "And now," Brokaw solemnly intoned, "back to arena football...