Word: starlight
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...picked up by a peacetime school teacher who hires Bachmann as an assassin, Bachmann pauses to urinate by the side of the road: “With birdie in hand, he looked up at the stars. Eternity, eternity, said a Nietzschean murmur within him, how big you are! O starlight that floods the cosmos (his arc grew shorter and shorter)! Heaven and earth, clouds and space! said Bachmann aloud. Not so loud! Halftan called.” These are the moments when Bachmann’s personal experiences of the war and his mental trauma become beautiful and disturbing without...
...familiar in movies of the '60s (and today; see Knocked Up). But since she had the good fortune to be impregnated by McQueen, true love is assured. The plot is Hollywood hokum with a patina of New Yawk grit, but Mulligan was always an ace at revealing the subtle starlight behind the Kleig lights...
What's the craziest thing that you've ever seen fans do at one of your shows? Last year I played the Starlight Ballroom in Philadelphia and a couple definitely had sex on stage. I have not yet seen it, but it's apparently happened at multiple shows. Typically, after the show the promoter or one of their friends will be having a beer and will be like, "That was amazing when those people started having sex," And I'm like, "What?" And everyone will be sharing their story about it and I will be the only guy who didn...
...Obama, and then there is what we see. Words like hope, change and progress might seem like naive campaign sloganeering in a dark age. But think of the way those words ring for a people whose forebears marched into billy clubs and dogs, whose ancestors fled north by starlight, feeling the moss on the backs of trees. The sight of the Obama family onstage that first night in Denver was similarly mind-blowing, an image of black families that television so rarely provides. With its quiet class and agility--the beaming beautiful wife, the waving kids--this campaign has confirmed...
...wild. But there will be togas! And that’s all one can ask for, really. Lowell is having a Toga Party; hopefully it’ll be more successful than Mather’s lackluster effort of three years past. Friday, Nov. 2. Lowell House. $5. 5) Starlight, Starbright… Make a wish on a star at The Gilliland Observatory on top of the Museum of Science’s garage roof, open for free viewings every Friday night. The perfect date for you and that cutie you’ve been eyeing in your science fiction...