Word: roberts
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...Inhabiting the movies-only aesthetic of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez (to whose Grindhouse double feature Wright contributed a funny mock-horror trailer), Wright and Pegg have topped Shaun of the Dead by trans(atlantic)planting a whole gaggle of genres: the English-village comedy, the Wicker Man strain of rural horror, any number of Brit police TV series and its main reference point, the Hollywood action film. But the thing to cherish - and I hope I won't scare you away with this - is how bloody English it is. By which I mean, bloody funny...
...Gomes emphasized the importance of remembering the tragedy and those affected by it, while recognizing the new appreciation of life that death brings to the living. Music was provided by the Harvard University Choir, and the congregation was invited to participate in prayers and the reading of Psalm 23. Robert J. Kenney ’10 said that he found the service to be “very uplifting.” “Reverend Gomes really captured what I was feeling,” Kenney said. “He gave a positive and respectful message about...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down
...thoughts are depressed or obsessive, the drugs may reveal a path through them. For Leary and his circle--which influenced millions of Americans to experiment with drugs--psychedelics' seemingly boundless possibilities led to terrible recklessness. There's a jaw-dropping passage in last year's authoritative Leary biography by Robert Greenfield in which Leary and two friends ingest an astonishing 31 psilocybin pills in Leary's kitchen while his 13-year-old daughter has a pajama party upstairs. Stupefied, one of the friends climbs into the girl's bed and has to be pulled from the room...
...manipulate the truth and called for "a new premium attached to truth in public life." In the next issue of the magazine, Rudd again preyed on the P.M., arguing that the government's new industrial relations laws "would have deeply offended the responsible conservatism and social liberalism of Robert Menzies"-Australia's longest-serving leader and a hero to Howard. With Howard's "market fundamentalism" taking the country to the right, Rudd sketched out a Blair-style terrain that social-democratic Labor could reclaim. "The time has come to restore the balance in Australian politics," Rudd wrote, using...