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...country road. A tree. Evening.”Two men, dressed in tattered clothes, stand around, loitering, waiting. “Funny,” one says. “Nothing to be done.” Behind them glows an eerie light, the nighttime glare of the levee bordering the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. “How could we use the most enigmatic play of the 20th century to talk about what happened in Katrina?” video artist Paul Chan remembers asking himself on a trip to New Orleans in the fall...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Paul Chan Deals with Difficult Subjects and ‘Three Easy Pieces’ | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...sucking blood translates into extreme sexual situations and desire leads to destruction—the film boasts ten times more blood (and sex) than “Carrie.” Denis’s next film, “Friday Night,” documents a one-night stand. It’s 90 minutes of the most frustrating, captivating sexual tension imaginable.“There is no filmmaking without sex or attraction or desire because film is really made of that—of this attraction, repulsion, fear,” Denis said. “Even...

Author: By Mia P. Walker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: French Filmmaker Denis Gets Frank | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...Scully’s. “We are called to treat [animals] with kindness,” he writes, “not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don’t; because they all stand unequal and powerless before...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Maverick for Mercy | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...deputy AG acted more subtly in February after Clinton lawyer David Kendall charged that Starr's office had leaked grand-jury information. When Starr announced plans for an internal investigation of the leaks, Holder advised him to stand down until the federal judge overseeing the case found merit in the complaint. But at the same time, Holder quietly called the judge and offered the DOJ's help in pending issues raised by the President's lawyers, which included the leaks question. When Starr learned about the unusual intervention, he saw it as a betrayal. (Holder has denied that he "ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Holder's Role in Lewinsky Probe Get Scrutiny? | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...trying to keep your T&E budget in check, it's now easier to purchase a ticket on Greyhound - the bus company has expanded it's e-ticketing network to New York State. Buy your tickets online and print them out at home; there's no need to stand in line at the station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel News: Classic Old Bars | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

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