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There's a lot about McDonald's that angers the farmers--its sameness, its blandness, the culinary hegemony it represents--yet at the outset the demonstrations were remarkably genteel, with protesters occupying restaurants and offering customers an alternative meal of baguettes stuffed with cheese or foie gras. But lately things have turned nasty. Protesters are finding ever more to dislike about the uniquely American food--especially the very genes that make the McDonald's beef or bun or potato what...
...excited I'd been at the outset, I felt deflated that none were as spectacular as they looked. And when I tried to get my film developed, finding same-day APS processing on a Sunday was a pain. Estimates ranged from overnight to three days, until I located a shop (Fromex) on Manhattan's Upper East Side. As for the prints, the Konica did better on close-ups, but overall it was a toss...
...haunting ceremony. The problem, however, is that Kubrick's vision misinterprets Schnitzler's theme: That sex is so deceptive and dangerous because it involves a playout of fantasy. That reality only kicks in once sex is over. Yet, in Kubrick's orgy scene, the mood is menacing from the outset. This isn't erotic sex--this is a museum of frigidity. Sex and death are linked from the beginning, preventing the audience from feeling the lustful charge and understanding the potent connection between sexual fantasy and fatal reality...
...about his new neighbors, Oliver and Cheryl Lang (Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack), and their creepy kids. There's always something eerie about Robbins' geniality--in his screen persona he's never been a guy from whom a sensible person would buy a used car--and almost from the outset you agree with Faraday that he and his kin are surely up to something distinctly antisocial. One-two-three, Faraday acquires the evidence suggesting that Oliver has taken over another man's identity and is almost certainly a quietly mad bomber. The cautionary notes struck by Faraday's new girlfriend...
...have sparked the Great Chicago Fire. One cannot help wondering what role Martin Luther King Jr. would have played in the civil rights movement if the opportunity had not presented itself that first evening of the boycott--if Rosa Parks had chosen a row farther back from the outset, or if she had missed the bus altogether...