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...office history, Gibson's supposed to be a panderer, pimping Christ's suffering to audiences who didn't realize they needed to see their personal Redeemer get scourged for the longer part of two hours. You tell me, Andy: How many millions did Cecil B. DeMille make off his silent-film smash The King of Kings? How many billions do the movie and TV moguls make each year portraying, in a manner that doesn't even attempt to be edifying, human suffering, mutilation and humiliation-for cheap thrills or cheaper laughs...
While he says that he is not scared of working at these silent hours, Madden admits “there is definitely more danger during this shift than during the day. There are criminals out there who know we’re open 24 hours a day and take advantage of that.” And although the cash is almost never threatened, they did have a man come in here and steal five cartons of cigarettes. “That’s the kind of thing that happens at this hour, but the cashiers and the security guards...
...Cabot or Lamont, but spending it in CVS would be a far cry from studying. While there is nowhere to sit, there’s a whole lot to eat, and the music is pretty good. All they need now is a liquor license to turn it from silent to slammin?...
...forms of terrorism," Zakayev had told TIME in an interview from London shortly before the bombing. "It's a death sentence for our cause if we are associated with terrorism." The one Chechen commander who in the past has admitted ordering similar attacks, Shamil Basayev, has so far been silent. (Maskhadov claims to have broken all links with Basayev and has denounced his tactics.) This did not stop loud calls by nationalist politicians for tough new antiterrorist measures, including the expulsion of Chechens from Moscow, declaration of a state of emergency and the lifting of a moratorium on the death...
...continue throughout the album in a slightly exhausting downhill amble that includes the regrettably-titled “I Have Been Told That My Skin Is Exceptionally Smooth,” as well as the gothic-esque “My Favorite Things” and “Silent Night.” But these songs are in every way inferior to the album’s opener and apex, “Great Ghosts,” a guitar lullaby about exile, return and surrender that should be the Microphone’s swan song. Typically, tentatively, Elvrum...