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...digital revolution, 9/11, financial bubbles bursting, a possible depression and the election - possibly their election - of an African-American President: the makings, frankly, of a healthier, more useful generational creation myth than assassinations, antiwar protests and countercultural bacchanalia (which, by the way, enabled the risk-taking, party-hearty, quasi-utopian paradigm of the past quarter-century). In other words, the kids are all right. (Read stories from people who lived through the Great Depression...
...ghosts know us for our contributions, not our wars," says Silas at a treaty negotiation. Kings is lucky to have McShane, who, as a philosophical criminal in Deadwood, effortlessly breathed out David Milch's mix of obscenity, frontier talk and Shakespeare. Here, leonine, menacing and thoughtful, he makes Kings' quasi-biblical declamations seem natural - as well as the idea that a First World Western country would be run by a tyrant in pinstripes, selected as King by God, who made a crown of butterflies alight on his head as a sign of divine mandate. (Gilboa's emblem is a butterfly...
...honor's revocation last year, Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe - are not allowed to style themselves "Sir," a distinction reserved solely for subjects of Queen Liz. But where Brown really got himself in hot water was with his explanation of what the Massachusetts senator had done to deserve his quasi-ennoblement. Kennedy had contributed to improving American health care, boosting educational provision around the world and, Brown told his congressional audience on March 4, "Northern Ireland is today at peace." (See pictures from JFK's inner circle...
...there - unless it involved beaches, soccer or Carnaval. "Brazil always suffered externally because of its internal poverty," says Lula's foreign-policy adviser, Marco Aurelio Garcia. The nation's founding monarchy, which lasted until 1889, insulated the country from the region's 19th century upheavals but also spawned a quasi-feudal class system that led to the inequalities that persist today. In 2000, fewer than 3% of Brazilians still owned more than two-thirds of the arable land, and the divide between the rich southeast and destitute northeast, where Lula was born, was as stark as ever...
...that would have been fitting in such rock-parodies as Spinal Tap; yet halfway through the song, the chorus takes a cheery psychedelic turn. The album’s most unexpected success, “The Drop I Hold,” features Alexander sing-speaking over a lazy quasi-hip-hop guitar riff. The mix of the eerie synthesizer and subtle piano licks gives rise to a sense of pensiveness not heard on other tracks. Though it slightly builds cohesion as it goes along, the album lacks much substance or integrity. “200 Million Thousand?...