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...Womanizer” features the only thing left: the Ugly One. Yes, Britney as “office girl” is actually so ugly in a black bob wig, librarian glasses, and bright red lipstick that you can almost hear her saying, “These shoes rule.” Dear Lord, she’s run through so many sexual types that she now must resort to making ugliness itself into a fetish. Oh, and to remind us that she’s actually the hottest minx to ever grace a TV screen, the shots of Ugly...
...decided that I was entirely too grown-up to watch any movie that included coming-of-age themes, magical wonderlands, or a message about the true value of love. Persuaded by superstars such as Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson, and Queen Latifah, however, I finally decided to break my own rule and see “The Secret Life of Bees,” the new movie based on the 2002 novel of the same name by Sue Monk Kidd. Fortunately, the characters in the movie subtly and skillfully explore these juvenile themes but without the unnecessary sappiness and sentimentality that...
...desires,” and that genetic modification of plants is acceptable only if their reproductive ability is not affected—apparently, neutering of dogs is fine, but tearing the stamens off of flowers crosses the ethical line that binds all living beings together. Yet the most bizarre ruling is a unanimous decision by the committee that inflicting “arbitrary harm” on plants is “morally impermissible.” The report goes on to determine that “This treatment would include, e.g. decapitation of wild flowers at the roadside without...
...rule of reason,” Al Gore ’69 declared to a packed Tercentenary Theater a Wednesday, “must dictate our actions towards the environment.” His speech pushed this theme, urging listeners to take drastic actions now for “the survival of our human civilization...
...many of our decisions in this country are now made on the basis of information supplied not from universities, not from processes governed by the rule of reason, but instead by self-interested institutions, corporations, and groups that want to make questions of fact questions of power,” Gore said...