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...testament to his vision. However, it is at once obvious that “The Hyacinth Macaw” isn’t a light play. Instead, it is essentially about the nature of everything and wants to say it all in a mere two-hour time span. While the production hardly accomplished that, in retrospect it succeeded in another aspect—crafting a new appreciation for silence in that elusive search for meaning...
...only thing elevating this otherwise banal movie is Josh Brolin’s performance. He truly inhabits Bush, a feat made even more impressive by the fact that he successfully depicts him over a span of 40 years. Playing the current president is undoubtedly intimidating, but Brolin makes a complex character out of a seemingly less-than-complicated man. Unfortunately, the rest of the cast falls into caricature. In particular, Thandie Newton’s Condoleezza Rice seems like an amateur “Saturday Night Live” impersonation...
...debates, Rahman said. For example, Hoffman quoted Hamlet, saying, “Conscience does make cowards of us all,” while discussing tax policy. Each debater was given two minutes to answer questions that ranged from whether proceedings in the Supreme Court should be broadcast on C-SPAN to the amount and type of experience necessary for a candidate to be qualified for the presidency. Debaters stayed within time limits without any red lights or warnings from the moderator. The debate format included time for responses from the other debaters, as well as closing statements from each participant...
...fully "carbon neutral," which is about as green as you can get. "We look at environmental responsibility holistically," says Tod Arbogast, Dell's director of sustainability. "The material we place in our products, how we make them, has an impact from the beginning to the end of its life span" - and even beyond that...
...SPAN On the first morning of the Democratic National Convention, all the cable-news outfits were yakking about what Hillary Clinton might say--except one. On C-SPAN? Empty chairs on a silent stage. It was waiting for someone to show up and actually say something. This was the only channel on which a citizen could watch all the convention speeches. Plus, it airs Prime Minister's Questions, my all-time-favorite sitcom. (No offense, Larry David...