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...Boycott us, please do,” he said. “It’s not fun for me when a lot of random people who don’t know anyone in the club show up at my door. It’s not an open party—it’s for the friends of people in the club...
...Since 9/11, flight crews have often had to go through screening alongside passengers, and are even pulled aside for special searches. The pilots call it "gate-rape"; many claim that screeners target them because doing so is an easy way for them to meet their quota of random searches and because screeners know crews will be punished by their airlines if they complain...
...boys decide to commit a random murder as a political statement that attempts to prove the existential/nihilistic convictions that their lonely childhoods have led them to embrace...
...CZECH POINT: PW is overwhelmed by "Prague" by Arthur Phillips (Random House; June 18), giving it a starred box, its highest accolade. "Everything about this dazzling first novel is utterly original, including the title?. It's about a group of young American (and one Canadian) expatriates living in Budapest in 1990, just after the Communist empire has collapsed and the point of 'Prague' is that it's the place everyone would rather be, except they have all somehow settled for Budapest as second best to their idealized Central European city?. What happens in this novel is not nearly so important...
...doesn’t get much more rudimentary than this—and perhaps this is the intention of director Roger Kumble (Cruel Intentions). Once settled into its seemingly random and chaotic pace with characters and overly elaborate gags tumbling on top of each other, it becomes clear that the film is nothing more than a high farce of the first degree. Subtlety is banished not only in humor, but also in the ultimate climax of the plot, in which we see Christina realize—only after copious amounts of melodramatic sobbing, of course—that when...