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That's how it goes with Wu-Tang Clan--part music sensation, part myth. And this is its paradox. It is a branded marketing juggernaut, instantly recognizable in remote corners of the globe but not quite able to convert its wide appeal to the mainstream. With its latest album, The W (see review), RZA hopes to harness the band's market power to better management in order to restage the Wu brand and set the Clan on a new growth phase...
...actually a fantasy only vaguely based on the facts of the case--a distinctly postmodern fantasy insistently exploiting the paradox that De Sade is a victim of sadism as wretched as any he might have imagined. Other matters are also ironically explored: What is freedom; What is power--that sort of thing. The film's creators--director Phil Kaufman, writer Doug Wright (adapting his own play)--seem to think they have made a black comedy. But Kaufman, who displayed a gift for sexy literacy in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, here succumbs to an unbearable heaviness of spirit. His approach...
...That's how it goes with Wu-Tang Clan: part musical sensation, part myth. And this is its paradox: a branded marketing juggernaut, instantly recognizable in remote corners of the globe, but not quite able to convert its wide appeal to the mainstream. With its latest album, "The W" (see review), RZA hopes to harness the band's market power to better management to restage the Wu brand and set the Clan on a new growth phase...
...explain the paradox that the emergence of more moderate regimes in Serbia and Croatia is followed by a strengthening of nationalism in Bosnia's Serb and Croat communities...
RICKETS RESURFACES Talk about a paradox. Breast-feeding mothers who actually listen to their pediatrician and slather their kids with sunscreen may be creating another problem: vitamin D deficiency. Fortified formula and sunlight are two excellent sources of the nutrient, and now researchers say that rickets--a bone-weakening disease linked to lack of D--is on the rise in children. You might consider supplementing mother's milk with formula or giving your child a multi-vitamin containing D. Caution: too much D--more than 400 IUs from all sources daily--is toxic to toddlers...