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...much sports means to these people. I mean, we're pretty sports-crazed, but nothing like this. "A land were sport is sacred," Henry Lawson called it. (They like to call Lawson "Australia's Mark Twain," but he's no Mark Twain. Actually, he's pretty sentimental and pedestrian.) Anyway, Lawson got that one right, about sports. Since colonial days, when diggers on the goldfields made sure they always had time at the end of the day for a football match or a bare-knuckle fight, Australia has cherished games of all sorts. Harry Gordon is what they call...
...much Tarsem's, as he bids us to enter a world in which the confines of narrative structure simply melt away. The problem with this visually arresting picture however, is that its disturbing aesthetic too often overwhelms Mark Protosevich's underwritten screenplay, which is really nothing more than a pedestrian serial killer thriller at heart. Yet so much of Tarsem's imagery - such as the first haunting glimpses of Lopez as a seductive slave to subconscious - leaves an indelible impression on the mind. He may not capture the artistic grit of Seven or the psychological intensity of Silence...
...tire swing. And on a nearby farm in Sawyerville, it built Yancey Chapel. The church rests on a ridge in the woods and is made from discarded tires and old timber as well as slate dredged from a creek. All the materials are humble, yet Yancey is anything but pedestrian. With a font whose water trickles through the sanctuary, clerestory openings to the sky and an upward-sweeping roof cupped like hands set in prayer, the chapel is a sublime embodiment of worship...
...nobody's expecting a return to war. The peace process was never quite the cliffhanger it's been portrayed as by a U.S. president desperate for a foreign policy trophy and by a media corps seeking to breathe new drama into what has become one of the more pedestrian staples of the last decade's news coverage. Yasser Arafat may have threatened publicly to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state if no deal was reached by the deadline, but off the record his aides have always made it abundantly clear that he won't tempt fate while the U.S. election season...
...were a condom ad, Ali--the perfect wrap. Would you still do it?" I ask. He says there's no way he's driving around in a condom. A pedestrian stares at Ali's car, looking like she's already had a scoop or six. "How about this deal, Ali?" I ask. "You get paid $400 to drive around doing nothing, and I get paid to ask you stupid questions?" It's America, says a smiling Ali, who grew up in Iran. "That's why people come here." He hits the gas, and we're like two nuts...