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Remember the Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Gore global-warming pitch at the Academy Awards? Before they spoke, the screen at the back of the stage flashed not-so-subliminal messages about how to save the planet. My personal favorite was "Ride mass transit." This to a conclave of Hollywood plutocrats who have not seen the inside of a subway since the moon landing and for whom mass transit means a stretch limo seating no fewer than...
...daughter: Esma needs to pay Sara’s imminent school trip fees—a whopping sum of 200 euros—and we see her become increasingly more embarrassed as she asks each of the film’s characters for help. Tension escalates to a fever pitch as Sara questions the identity of her father while the school trip looms nearer. The past is a context, rather than a subject, for the film: Zbanic does not resort to graphic violence in order to hint at the atrocities of the war. We see it reflected in the women?...
...sound, has a distinctly modern feel to it. This mixture has its upsides and its downsides. The Stooges’ infamously primal, sexually explicit lyrics are still there, as is front man Iggy Pop’s distinct “singing” style (read: occasionally on pitch, sometimes screaming). But the overall sound doesn’t feel as unique as it must have in the band’s heyday in the 1970s. The album does share some elements with 1973’s seminal “Raw Power.” There?...
...anything but triumphal. John McCain, the Establishment favorite to win the 2008 Republican nomination, skipped CPAC entirely but did show up on David Letterman the night before, choosing the most aggressively glib venue to semiofficially announce his candidacy. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney was there to make his pitch for 2008 but had to compete with a man who was working the crowd in a dolphin costume and a T-shirt identifying him as "Flip Romney: Just another flip flopper from Massachusetts." Ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani barely mentioned the social issues on which he parts ways with conservatives...
...bottom of the eighth, the Spartans blew the game open with a three-run rally off sophomore pitcher Hampton Foushee. Tampa, ranked third in Division II baseball, received RBI singles from Charlie Raley and Noah Brannon and also scored a run on a wild pitch in the inning. Junior Brad Unger, Harvard’s starter, dug himself into a hole, committing three errors and walking three batters on top of giving up six hits. Unger allowed four runs in 3 1/3 innings, only one of which was earned. The Crimson was sloppy on defense as a unit, making...