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Just as we now refer to “War and Peace” and “Great Expectations” as “serial novels,” so, too, will we categorize “The Sopranos” and some of its lesser kin as “tele-epics...
...individuals playing at roles they find either repulsive or silly. Why do they do it? The reasons are varied. Perhaps to make a supremely ironic point about how excessive the American aristocracy can be? Perhaps to see how the other half lives? Perhaps, like an actor portraying a serial killer, just for the thrill of it?No matter the reason, the paramount accessory for a true cerebral ironist is a killer ironic fashion sense.The sporting of pink and green to the polo club has always been a sort of tongue-in-cheek mode of self-expression, but final clubs members...
...PRESIDENT DESPERATE TO TURN THE corner after a wretched 2005, last week's circus was the last thing he needed. This has been a season of doubt about the Administration's competence, candor and instinct. In serial scenes of domestic violence, Republicans are attacking their own. An all-Republican House panel concluded last week that Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff made decisions during Hurricane Katrina "late, ineffectively or not at all." Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was grilled about Iraq by cranky Republican Senators: "I don't see, Madame Secretary, how things are getting better," said Chuck Hagel of Nebraska...
...deputy took down the serial number of Cheney?s Perazzi Brescia, an over-and-under, double-barrel 28-gauge shotgun, and asked no more questions of the vice president. There were no questions about drinking at all on Sunday. Outside the main house, he met up with Gerardo Medellin, who identified the hunt party members...
...just trying to create these amusing, farcical situations and characters. Little did we know that with time and spreading popularity it would become a social phenomenon." Like its predecessors, Bronzés 3dispatches its callous characters on vacation where a minimalist plot is driven by their pettiness, scheming and serial infidelities. But in contrast to the early works, which parodied the unabashed boorishness of young French tourists in the sex-addled 1970s at an Ivory Coast Club Med resort and, in the second film, on the ski slopes, the new movie finds our antiheroes visiting Sardinia in overripe middle...