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...peculiarities of Iowans, Missourians, Kentuckians, Floridians or Tennesseans. Not even the Californians, who are conducting a licorice-eating contest in Burbank, may be said to behave any odder in August than in January. It is the quality of the oddness that is different, the ghostly spirit that affects the mind in August, so that while one is actually entertained by watching three mules dive into a 6-ft. pool, still a part of the same mind retains its distance, goes off on a private reverie in which collapsing football players shaped like refrigerators, poisoned birds, butter cows and Judge Crater...
...forces in Europe and outlawing chemical weapons, they offered no guidance on how these goals would be achieved. Despite the Soviet practice of avoiding the topic of human rights, the statement offered some bland language that "the two leaders agreed on the importance of resolving humanitarian cases in the spirit of cooperation." The summiteers announced they would carry out an agreement, signed earlier, that was aimed at improving air safety in the North Pacific, and thus avoiding a repetition of the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in 1983. Negotiations to resume direct air service between New York...
...Days pretty much busts the assumption that all of Rupert Murdoch's TV networks are tools of Karl Rove. (Spurlock shows off his A.C.L.U. card on camera.) But the series is not strident, and seems to have been made in a genuine spirit of curiosity. Later episodes, in which Spurlock serves as host and does interviews, are mixed; anti-aging therapy is simply not as burning a social issue. But the Islam episode--a devout Christian moves in with a Muslim family--is fascinating, moving, funny and without a shred of manipulation...
Murderball is no Rocky-esque hymn to the human spirit. It's more like a prison movie; the guys on the quad rugby Team USA have the grizzled machismo of lifers. Or sports studs. Mark Zupan, right, goateed and tattooed, is as focused as any pro lineman. And Joe Soares, who runs the Canadian team, has the martinet tone of an NFL coach. Soares went north after the U.S. dropped him from the squad. There's bad blood, and it will be spilled...
...those parts of American culture many parents consider un-Islamic. "What we're up against in movies, television and music," she says, "is profanity, sex and violence. The whole teenage phenomenon in the U.S. is one of personal power - claiming their own voice, their own soul, their own spirit. We don't want to crush that. We want to guide...