Word: reconnections
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...them or not. He has no doubt that much of what we eat is bad for us, for the animals we feed on and for the environment. The author of Second Nature and The Botany of Desire, Pollan is willing to go to some lengths to reconnect with what he eats, even if that means putting in a hard week on an organic farm and slitting the throats of chickens. He's not Paris Hilton on The Simple Life...
...offered her $100,000 for the love letters her famous father wrote her equally famous and recently deceased mother. There Reese meets an English grad student (Amelia Warner, “Aeon Flux”) and wannabe Christian-rock musician (Will Ferrell), both of whom help Reese to reconnect with her reclusive father. And all of this to the tunes of indie faves like Azure Ray and—wait for it—the Shins...
...dispel that smog. Despite Americans' reputation for obesity, for instance, "I didn't find any more fat people here than in any French provincial town." And he wishes the U.S. well. The Vertigo in his title refers to the vertiginous identity crisis he sees Americans facing, their need to reconnect their values with the behavior of their government. Where De Tocqueville famously warned against the "tyranny of the majority," Lévy sees a tyrannical right-wing minority acting like a majority. What kind of U.S. would he prefer? "An America of the Enlightenment, of human rights, of democratic dreams...
...Come Knocking, one of the closing movies of the Sundance Film Festival, which ended Sunday, is the story of Howard Spence, a washed up bad-boy star of Westerns, who makes a last ditch effort to reconnect with the people who genuinely love him. The film, which was shot in small towns in Utah, Nevada and Montana and will be released by Sony Pictures Classics on March 17, reunites German director Wim Wenders and American playwright/actor Sam Shepard, two icons of the independent art world who first teamed up for the acclaimed Paris, Texas (1984). They spoke to TIME about...
...Perhaps, but other Liberal stalwarts say what the party needs most right now is a lengthy period of re-examination to help it reconnect with voters it once took for granted. "People have to define what it is to be a Liberal again," says Tom Axworthy, a former aide to Pierre Trudeau...