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...efforts to impress upon the campers the importance of air rifle safety are rendered fruitless with their veins bathing their trigger fingers in pure Sunkist, digits which, in turn pump, out pounds of ordinance in the general direction of squirrels that stray near the range. Winslow’s quasi-senile and marginally coherent mutterings of, “Shoot to kill” as he walks by are less than propitious for one in my delicate situation: the unarmed authority figure...
...have the profoundly unique summer job of congressional internsorting mail, writing letters, and entering databut by night, I am a student learning the tricks of the trade. A few weeks ago, the prospect of free food lured me to a quasi-workshop event targeted towards Asian Americans being held in one of the House office buildings. The group that organizes these meetings aims to teach us leadership skills, so I was less than surprised to see that the first session would focus on the basics: networking...
Wait, there's more. All nine buildings will sit amid 40 acres of grass and trees, parkland to be hauled piece by piece into the city and up onto the roof of a six-story, 13-block-long building. Inside that vast, quasi-subterranean space will be 13 acres of TV studios, underground parking for thousands of cars, and an enormous shopping mall. The whole multibillion-dollar shebang, called Television City, must get approval from two separate city boards, a process that could take a year. If Trump is successful, his enclave will be the most ambitious urban project...
...times, people often turn to a higher power-sometimes even higher than TV. It's hard not to see the effects here of the postelection focus on spiritual values. Grant doesn't talk about religion on Three Wishes, but Christian music is her claim to fame. There's a quasi-spiritual cast to Home Edition (and not just because an itinerant carpenter works miracles across the land). Participants talk openly about prayer, and the show often involves local churches. Todd Boyd, a professor of critical studies at the University of Southern California, attributes this to a greater religious openness...
...nutsy-sexy Mexican Battle in Heaven. A third, as Cannes' official announcer Patrick Fabre told me at a swank party where we sat at the same table with Toni Morrison and Morgan Freeman (have I broken the record for name-dropping in a subordinate clause?), is the quasi-Kurdish war epic Kilometre Zero. That movie has an image that is pure Kusturica: of a Kurdish soldier so eager to get out of the Iraqi army that during one trench battle he sticks a foot up into the firing line to get it blown...