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...Rodriguez's feature jumbles the zombie, cop, political thriller and rural-trash-melodrama genres. Like The Night of the Living Dead, it's about a random bunch of people trapped in a shack and beset by flesh-dripping, flesh-eating zombies. In the spirit of that 1968 classic, Planet Terror celebrates the community of the still-living, except that Rodriguez's humans do a lot less grousing than George Romero's did. It's also got deadly gases, go-go dancers, pretty disgusting shots of men with extreme gonadal anomalies, and Bruce Willis as the man who killed bin Laden...
...little different from what you’re used to seeing,” Lee says. “I’ll just say that we went to the Garment District and bought some really ugly clothes, but they look great on the runway. There are some random, crazy ideas...
...just give up? I mean seriously, what’s the point?” This is the rare book of comedy that, however irreverent, is also genuinely powerful.Of course, premature adulthood is a fitting theme for a 22-year-old author who earned a two-book deal from Random House before his Harvard degree. Not to mention Rich’s arguably greater distinction last month, when the New Yorker published three pieces from “Ant Farm” in its humor column. Among Harvard writers, only John Updike ’54 managed to publish...
...because they're "cultural latecomers that have [yet] to be effortlessly hammered into our evolved cognitive architecture." Revonsuo knows that his theory pleases neither Freudians nor neuroscientists. "If, for the supporters of the psychological theories, it grants too little meaning to dreams," he says, "for the supporters of neurophysiological random-noise theories, it grants dreaming far too much...
...looked at first like a random bunch of data points, a sprinkling of outliers beyond the curve of normal human experience. But when you stepped back, a pattern emerged. What these personal turns had in common was the apprehension that, well, we're all connected. Everything leans on something, is propped up by something--is both dependent and depended...