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...After Arafat No matter how much Yasser Arafat's death has affected the conflict in the Middle East [Nov. 22], isn't it somewhat disrespectful for the media to focus primarily on the benefit that his passing brings to the peace process? His death is a major event and heralds change, of course, but shouldn't we concentrate more on what Arafat gave to the world during his life? It is the respect that everyone deserves. Michael Foster Fareham, England...
...when he wishes that he had gone down with the victims of “Munich Air Disaster 1958.” Who else these days has the courage to put his striking pangs of despair into lush pop songs, intricately worded and accompanied by somewhat boring rock that keeps the focus on the singer? These days, as it’s been for 20 years, the only man to turn to is that one-name Brit, the man we call Morrissey...
...setting is integrated into the choreography of the fight scenes, although somewhat more conventionally; it incorporates the stock “fight in a stand of bamboo,” for instance, but often blends the natural with the dangerous more than the genre necessitates. In one memorable scene, the two main characters are saved from a marauding band of soldiers when an unknown, hidden presence kills their foes using wooden daggers. This shows the landscape’s danger despite its beauty, a theme that echoes Zhang’s deadly shirtsleeves...
...best of what one can hope for in going from college to the corporate world: he is in a leadership role (a role given him, hilariously, because of his success in creating Dinosaur cell phones for the 2-6 demographic), he has a beautiful wife (Selma Blair in a somewhat demeaning cameo playing her Legally Blonde bitch) and oodles of money...
Fortunately, the crowd inside were witnessing a sight far superior to the modern-day horrors of Mick Jagger’s hip thrust. The Pixies’ entrance was somewhat anticlimactic, as there was no opening act (not even, as pre-show rumors had it, a magic show by Lovering), and thus no build-up to their performance. That’s not to say that they didn’t get things going quickly; rather, they took the Satanic Verses approach, beginning the set with the explosive “Debaser.” The song, the closest thing...