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...swift and speedy end," as if those two words meant different things. And it's amazing that anyone could write, let alone publish, the following sentence: "That was the defining moment of great sex--when the penis met the vagina.") Bushnell also seems to have no sense of self-preservation: she should never, ever write about blogs or indeed anything having to do with computers or the Internet or probably electricity...
...that meaningfully treat Victor’s need to fill his parental void. while Victor bounces between foster families, Houston, a criminal and pseudo-terrorist, steals him away in bouts of blind but selfish love between arrests.Brad William Henke plays Victor’s best friend Denny, a chronic self-gratifier. Henke is a relative unknown but he offers an earnest and emotionally present performance that seems to exist almost in spite of the film’s oppressive post-ironic atmosphere. On the other hand, Macdonald—who emerges early on as Victor?...
...many experimental films. “These came out of a deeply personal and idiosyncratic language,” he said. Sitney ties it in part to the American psyche. “There is a longstanding American—should I say Emersonian—tradition of eccentric self-reliance.” —Staff writer Rebecca A. Schuetz can be reached at schuetz@fas.harvard.edu...
...career. Most strongly, though, the album feels like the band’s atonement—not only for all of their recent letdowns, but for every bum lyric or misplaced fill they’ve ever written. Such is the relentlessness of Metallica’s self-criticism. At the end of “The Unforgiven III,” Hetfield asks, “How can I be lost? In remembrance I relive / So how can I blame you, when it’s me I can’t forgive...
...raunchy blemishes are smoothed out, and the album, unfortunately, is boy-band boring. On “Miss Independent,” Ne-Yo sketches out a workplace dalliance—the video definitely speaks to a bit of sexual harrassment—between himself and a sexily self-actuated co-worker. “She work like the boss / Play like the boss / Car and a crib / She bout to pay ’em both off.” Ne-Yo’s you-go-girl rhetoric sounds patronizing, especially given the womanizing tone his previous albums...