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...making the graybeard argument that every remake is a desecration of the original. (David Cronenberg's 1986 take on The Fly, to name just one, is a stand-alone masterpiece.) But it'd be nice if the 2007 Heartbreak Kid had some idea of the moral stakes involved, instead of playing everything for no-brain farce...
...operated four days a week in front of the Calliope children’s clothing store—well, as long as the weather’s good.The cast of the show has evolved during its existence and now consists of a life-sized human puppet, which Blue stands behind and speaks through, singing his own versions of popular songs and commenting about onlookers as they chance by. “No, I’m not your God,” Newell says to a passer-by who reacted to the sight of the speaking man-sized creation with...
...oped) paints her as a proponent of “reasoned debate,” the columnist failed to formulate one coherent critique of the campaigns she implied were self-promotional. Coggins’ editorial insinuated that last year’s hunger strike, part of the Stand for Security campaign, should be classified as narcissism, not true activism, a categorization she borrowed from Bill Maher. Coggins fairly paraphrased the TV host, but provided an obscured description of her classmates’ actions. Coggins contrasted a campaign that was, in every sense of the word, effective, with the recent...
...There is a premium for perfection and no one is perfect.” Even though feminism isn’t an explicit theme of “Learning to Drive,” Pollitt defends the word. “If you ask a non-feminist what they stand for, it will turn out that they believe all the things a feminist believes in. And yet, this word has been successfully demonized,” Pollitt says. “I think people should not be afraid of the word. It is not a bad word...
...European Union (E.U.) criticized the U.S. organization responsible for product safety and urged the two bodies to work together to enforce higher standards, in a speech Tuesday at the Center for European Studies (CES). “In the area of the governance of product safety, the US might stand to benefit from a closer study of what has been done in Europe over the years,” commissioner Meglena Kuneva said in her talk, titled “Consumer Protection as a Challenge and Opportunity for the Transatlantic Agenda.” The speech was part...