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...killing fields." Meanwhile, a Palestinian group, the Tulkarm Women's Union, has braved condemnation for treachery and violent reprisals by its frank words in a letter to Yasser Arafat: "We urge you to issue instructions to your police force to stop sending innocent children to their death." Yet somehow ABC considered this side of the story irrelevant...
Turning elsewhere, we can watch one of the most embarrassing ex-presidencies ever unfold before our eyes. Bill cannot get a Diet Coke without screwing up, and Hillary can’t watch him do it without somehow aiding and abetting and then trying to make up for it with such phoniness that only Barney Frank is fooled. Her latest endeavor was to support a bill that sets limits on lobbying for presidential pardon. This is absurdity in such a pure state that nobody except the New York Post has even bothered to touch it, instead choosing to marvel...
...ambitious. There’s the implication from the childhood scenes that Jung never wants to have to work as hard for as little as his dad, but other than that, the film seems to suggest that the inevitable logic of capitalism works this way, that somehow the very fact of being American causes Jung to be entrepreneurially ambitious, to spot an opportunity to make money. But why Jung and not anyone else? Why is he always reaching for more when he doesn’t seem to be a man of particularly extravagant tastes? True, greed...
...barely has time to recover before the Frenchman delivers the second half of his one-two punch with “Naive Song.” Upbeat and uplifting, the track creates a brand new world of escapist fantasies. Mirwais’ voice, delivering banal yet somehow appropriate lyrics, is filtered through a vocoder to encapsulate an otherworldly effect. Sounding at times like the soundtrack to a car commercial, “Naive Song” nevertheless manages to successfully fuse electronic sensibilities with a more conventional pop motif. Unfortunately, it’s all downhill from here, and though...
...house filled with smoke. "Oh my! Oh my!" exclaimed Muharemi, tugging anxiously at her blue wool head scarf amid the rubble. "The children were screaming, and I couldn't see my sons." Groping for the front door, she was seized with panic. "We thought the house was falling." Somehow it did not, and the families escaped, taking cover in a nearby ditch...