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...Bush's plainspoken style may be well suited to a time of fear, grief and a primal rage for revenge. Those close to him recognize the costs associated with such an attribute. It was a mistake, at a time when the U.S. needs to be sensitive to its Muslim citizens and friends in Islamic countries, to cast the nation's task as a "crusade"; it was crass for Bush to adopt the attitude of a frontier sheriff and say he wanted bin Laden captured "dead or alive." "Sometimes he can be too plainspoken," says an adviser. "But when...
...about, let alone talk about, vaginas. When they have, it has often been in big books by the feminist intelligentsia and mostly in the context of a power struggle--vaginas as a target of oppression (Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape), or vaginas as a primal, mysterious force that intimidates men (Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex). Ensler's contribution is to embrace both those traditions in the Monologues and also build on them by demystifying the vagina and thus arguing for it as a source of power and pleasure for both sexes...
...powerful. The war on poverty. The war on cancer. The war on drugs. But the literal use of the word war - as President Bush has been using it, as well as the media - is something we're not used to. It's almost too strong, too raw, too primal...
...first leading actor (Harvey Keitel) and found that his second (Martin Sheen) had suffered a heart attack. At one point the director told his wife, "I'm thinking of shooting myself." So when it was all over, Francis Ford Coppola figured he had earned the right to a public primal scream. "My film is not a movie," he told the press at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, where Apocalypse Now had its premiere. "My film is not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. It's what it was really like. It was crazy... And little by little we went insane...
...some early recordings, like "It Should?ve Been Me" and "Greenbacks," he adopts the nasal whisper of a race tout) and get forceful. Charles also learned that he was his best composer. His first pieces were every bit as primitive as Ertegun?s, but his renditions were way more primal. On "Don?t You Know" the lyric boasts a banality worthy of Ahmet?s efforts ("Don?t you know, baby/ Child, don?t you know, baby/ Don?t you know, baby/ Little girl, little girl, don?t you know/ Please listen to me, baby/ Girl, I?m in love with...