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...last Wednesday, when the Robert E. Lee of this rebel force reached his Appomattox, the yell sounded more like an ironic groan. First-quarter sales set to be 40% off last year's estimate? Ya-hoo. Stock down 92% from its peak, with no end to the freefall in sight? Ya-hooey...
...name. The other day, for some reason, I wanted to retrieve the name of--you know, the gonzo journalist of fear-and-loathing fame...Rolling Stone...you know...But the once perfectly familiar words skittered off into the dark, and it was half a day before I caught sight of them as they dodged around another corner of the mind: Hunter Thompson...
...certain aristocratic disdain and hated the mediocrity of those who "eat their way/toward sleep like nameless oxen." His countrymen, he wrote, "say, No man should be/worthier than average. Thus,/my fellow citizens declare,/whoever would seek/excellence can find it/elsewhere among others." He was sardonically hardheaded: "Hungry livestock,/though in sight of pasture,/need the prod...
...memories are very malleable, especially at the height of emotion," she says. "Ask, 'Did he have a moustache?' Well, he does now, because you're implanting that image." Her interviews are long chats about other topics, with only occasional questions related to the pad she holds just out of sight. "The assumption is that this work is about art," says Boylan, "but it's about the complexity of memory...
...Zaitsev exists, he may have been an invention of Russian propaganda. Joseph Fiennes plays Danilov, an officer whose main responsibility is to write such propaganda to boost the morale of the troops and the Russian people. When these two young men meet each other it is friendship at first sight, and Danilov makes Vassily the center of a propaganda campaign based on the soldier's successes, creating the catch-phrase, "How many German officers have you shot today?" Danilov's campaign is successful. The Germans, upset by anything that helps the Russian morale, and needing a morale boost themselves since...