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...Your article on the film 300 quoted the actress Lena Headey as saying "Zack would go, 'Come and see this stage!' And we'd go, and there'd be, like, a rock. And we'd be like, 'Has he taken acid this morning? Or what's he looking at?'" And later, from the same actress: "You don't have any emotional props. You can't do this thing of 'Oooh, I'm going to sit on this chair because I feel sad now.'" Did you have to inflict this gobbledygook on us? Couldn't you have paraphrased it and spared...
...Your article on the film 300 quoted the actress Lena Headey as saying "Zack would go, 'Come and see this stage!' And we'd go, and there'd be, like, a rock. And we'd be like, 'Has he taken acid this morning? Or what's he looking at?'" And later, from the same actress: "You don't have any emotional props. You can't do this thing of 'Oooh, I'm going to sit on this chair because I feel sad now.'" Did you have to inflict this gobbledygook on us? Couldn't you have paraphrased it and spared...
...Forum at the Kennedy School seems an unlikely site for a rock concert. Nonetheless, the venue welcomed renowned Israeli musician David Broza to its stage March 22 for a night of trilingual folk music called “Concert for Peace...
Fifty years ago this week, the idea of Europe was set to paper, on a continent unsettled but past the worst of the postwar period. The air was clear of sulfur if not spleen. Ireland was a small rock in the North Atlantic made relevant only by its cultural totems and ever increasing diaspora. In Berlin a chasm was opening up between East and West--the partition of lives, fortunes and fates. In the global struggle between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., between freedom and totalitarianism, Europe was the fault line and the front line. Old Europe was being rebuilt...
Fast-forward 50 years. An Irish rock star reads the treaty with the enthusiasm a child has for cold peas but does uncover what I think technocrats might call poetry. Not much of it--just a turn of phrase here and there. Like Article 177, which summons the signatories to foster "the sustainable economic and social development of the developing countries and more particularly the most disadvantaged among them" and calls for a "campaign against poverty in the developing countries." Not exactly Thomas Jefferson but a glimpse of the kind of vision that might bind...