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...Instead, the unrelenting sectarian violence in daily Iraqi life soon turned the trial into a televised sideshow. For those who bothered to watch anymore, the sight of Saddam in court sometimes had the exact opposite effect than officials expected - it evoked nostalgia for a time when, under the tyrant's yoke, Shi'ites and Sunnis were not at each other's throat. Although viewership spiked today, interest in the proceedings will quickly subside again...
...beat-poetic “Pink Cellphone,” underscore the Deftones’ overall difficulty with this album. While the group has mined the intersection of screaming and art with some success for years, they do so here incoherently. In trying to be too broad, they lose sight of what made them noteworthy in the first place: consistently good songs...
Smith: We went in at dusk when the sun was just setting and the light was coming through. Watching them open the dome up I thought about how it was such an impressive sight. People don’t tend to think of telescopes or large mechanical structures as interesting or as beautiful, but seeing the how massive it was, standing nearby thousands of tons of steel, I wanted to capture how impressive it is to look up at that at twilight...
...most of the 300 million people in this country, both that sight and the idea of promoting it through legislation are unacceptable. Since the New Jersey Supreme Court’s ruling last week that gay people are constitutionally guaranteed equal benefits to married heterosexual couples, President Bush has had a renewed spring in his step. As ABC News’ The Note reported, if Republicans manage to hold Congress on November 7, the “best supporting actors/actresses” will be “liberal, activist, gay loving judges...
...fact, an old-fashioned mystery, an exercise in ratiocination, a locked-room puzzle - except that instead of deducing where the secret door is, you have to saw off your foot to get out. That first film borrowed elements from Poe's "The Purloined Letter" (hide a clue in plain sight) and Alice in Wonderland (an audio tape bears the message "Play me"). I'm tempted to compare the two men's existential dilemma to that of a Samuel Beckett play. There are differences, though. Instead of being buried to the neck in sand, or stranded on the road to nowhere...