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...that is nonsense. What liberal would want to deny the compassion and courage of working-class heroes whom the left embraced, historically, long before the right? Very simply, World Trade Center is a powerful movie experience, a hymn in plainsong that glorifies that which is best in the American spirit...
Executive producer Marc Platt and writer Cyrus Nowrasteh say they wanted to match the just-the-facts tone of the report. ("The report didn't use any adjectives" is a mantra both men repeat. It's exaggerated but true to the commission's spirit.) Platt hired director David L. Cunningham, a documentary veteran, to give the movie a vérité look, without emotional tricks like zooming in on fraught moments. That's not to say all the actors are dispassionate. Lauria recalls his having volunteered at ground zero after 9/11: "You realize how good people are. A good leader would...
...inspired by all six women and sort of synthesizing their spirit and their individuality...
...Veronique†is cut straight from a smoky Harlem jazz club. “The Gardens of Sampson & Beasley†has a crisp energy in its samba beat that betrays its nostalgic lyrics. “Clementine,†which carries Burt Bacharach’s spirit if not his name, counters the “packing up of summer clothes†and musings on “if the sun doesn’t shine†with a series of light major-key arpeggios...
...Slapped together in haste and under pressure, some parts of the resolution are indeed vague and open to interpretation. But Jeffrey A. Bader, a director of Asian Affairs at the National Security Council under President Clinton, argues that "the spirit of the resolution is more important than the letter." "The unanimity of the UNSC behind a pretty strong resolution is the story, in my opinion," says Bader, who now runs the Brookings Institution's China Initiative, "and it sends the desired message to Pyongyang of the unacceptability of its missile launches and its continuing to boycott the six-party talks...