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...excruciating exercise in emotional and sensory masochism. The film depicts the “true life events” of Port Authority Police officers John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and Will Jimeno (Michael Peña). Their 24-hour struggle to survive while trapped under tons of rock and rubble contains too many screams, tears, and fireballs to feel genuine.The real drama develops from the grief experienced by the men’s wives. Maria Bello and Maggie Gyllenhaa’s portrayals of suffering provide the most sincere emotional punch in the film. In stark contrast, the men?...
...With her rock-bottom popularity, Arroyo is now so dependent on the support of the Philippine military that many Filipinos might argue that a "soft coup" has already taken place in their country. Earlier this year Arroyo declared a brief state of emergency after supposedly foiling the latest in a series of plots to overthrow her. But a pro-Arroyo senator interviewed by TIME suggests the President is more likely to "do a Marcos" and declare martial law. "That's the only way for her to stay in power," he says...
...readers who like their short stories with a Roald Dahl-ish twist, Every Move You Make could be a form of Chinese water torture. As the title character of Mrs Porter and the Rock, about a widowed suburbanite dragged by her son to Uluru, complains: "Nothing had happened." But those who relax into Malouf's dreamy prose, the rewards are pleasurable and profound. In The Valley of Lagoons, we enter the stillness of the Gulf country through the consciousness of a 16-year-old boy to discover "an interweaving of close but distant voices so dense that they become...
Chickity China the Chinese chicken, this Saturday the Barenaked Ladies had Harvard students laughin’ and kickin’. The Ladies (who are actually all male) brunched with 40 students at the home of the Adams House Masters and rocked and talked with 250 more at Lowell Lecture Hall. The Canadian rock band’s visit was the first in the new HarvardLIVE! series, a collaboration between the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) and the Office For the Arts’ (OFA) Learning From Performers Program. The Barenaked boys were also the recipients of the first HarvardLIVE! Arts Achievement...
BETWEEN SOFT ROCK AND A HARD PLACE A House inquiry turns up dozens of previously unreported contacts between super-disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and Bush staff members. It's bad enough they knew the guy, but he got one assistant tickets to see Yanni. Aging rockers Josh Bolten and Tony Snow are extra embarrassed...