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...Trey Parker and Matt Stone production Team America: World Police is a delirious send-up of the international save-the-world action genre spoofing every movie from the Star Wars trilogy to Knightrider to The Matrix and unsympathetically mocks every public figure from Michael Moore to Kim Jong-Il to, curiously enough, Matt Damon. And they do it with puppets. Unlike most politically-motivated comedies these days, there’s no clear slant towards either the left or the right. Team America is a throwback to the kind of movie that casts the establishment as the good...
...think the ruling is really insignificant,” said Williams Professor of Criminal Justice Richard D. Parker. “It has nothing to do with the issue...
...well, alike. Newspapers have loudly proclaimed the return to simple, clean, conservative looks. Express’s best-selling new offering, the Editor Pant, is marketed as the “best-fitting pant in America” and features a waistline that actually covers the hips. Sarah Jessica Parker, best known for her role as sex columnist Carrie Bradshaw, has appeared in Gap ads sporting a blazer and pearls. Even Jay-Z has admonished America’s teens to “button up” in his songs...
...After seeing the film, Rolland launched an ad hominem attack claiming Nossiter "must have grown up, like so many Americans, surrounded by Coca-Cola, hamburgers and The Muppet Show." That weirdly parochial insult only highlights Nossiter's cosmopolitan approach. He finds nuance everywhere, including in his interview with Robert Parker, the redoubtable American wine critic who can make or break a vintage in the newsletter he produces from his Maryland home office, with his flatulent bulldog George and his basset hound Hoover in attendance. Parker says it's hardly his fault that his judgments have become the gold standard...
...thought their goalie played very well,” Parker said of the effort, “hence the low-scoring game...