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...means faint of heart when it comes to sappy romance, but the connection between Beethoven and Anna simply made me uncomfortable. One particular scene of unappealing sexual tension finds the copyist “lovingly” sponge-bathing the naked, overweight, ailing, and ancient Beethoven. Spare us. The acting job of Diane Kruger is also a letdown. The creation of her character was inherently risky, but she does a poor job selling it. Her emotion is forced, and she seems as confused as the audience as to the necessity of her character. The smattering of 19th century female gender...
...Black Keys” was met with many an anxious yell. When Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney finally emerged, crowd noise reached its peak. Auerbach riffed his way colossally into “Thickfreakness,” the title track of their 2003 release, Carney beat furiously on his spare drum kit, and the tone was set for the rest of the night. Auerbach, if not a guitar god then surely a demi-god, let loose even more than on the band’s four full-length albums, taking the unchained punch of the band’s songs...
...always knew there was a reason I don'tlike Kim Jong Il. It's not his pursuit of nuclear weapons. O.K., it's partly his pursuit of nuclear weapons, but hey, if you're a despot with a spare centrifuge and a free mountain, knock yourself out. The other part is, well, I just don't like his face. There's a visible smugness atop the looniness that seems to cry out for a vigorous slapping...
...Head claims that the race is about character and competence-and that Combs is a hypocrite who publicly supports teaching abstinence and family values but in her spare time writes porn. "She's not who she says she is," Head told TIME of Combs, who has been elected and served as both a state representative and Texas Agriculture Comissioner. Head, an attorney who served in the Texas legislature for 14 years, argues that Combs' work should not corrupt young Texans' minds-but her book, A Perfect Match, is out of print and hard to find. In fact...
...experience,” Patterson says. “You’re supposed to be shocked by what you see.” The site, he adds, receives about 20,000 unique visitors a day, and each visitor clicks on average between 10 and 15 times. In his spare hours, Patterson enters into the site the new deaths, 99 percent of which he says are submitted to him through his website. “It just seems that’s where everything in life is going—online,” Patterson says...