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...crane outside the window had begun to sink into the mud below, or rather had begun to subside, so that the long skeleton finger no longer reached true to heaven but listed dangerously toward their tower block as if enacting some strange and terrible slow-motion death strike.”For Docx and his characters, St. Petersburg comes to represent all the foreign, mysterious brutality of Russian culture. And as the plotline dips between Paris, London, New York, and St. Petersburg, it seems as if the grandeur of strange historical vibrancy that city represents not only oozes into...
...that they border on self-destructive. This isn’t to say the show lacks big issues; over three seasons of ”Battlestar,” the writers have introduced topics ranging from an Iraq-like occupation to electoral fraud to the ethics of a preemptive strike. None of these issues, however, come about without the decisions of complex characters. And that’s what sets “Battlestar” apart from other series. As people, we consume entertainment not just out of boredom or a need to keep up with the Joneses...
...Ironically, it may be in a show considered by some to be the inheritor of Sex and the City’s place in our zeitgeist: Gossip Girl. The CW show returned to the air on Monday after a painfully long hiatus due to the writer’s strike. The return was celebrated by New York Magazine, whose cover this week features a picture of the cast overlaid with the words “Best. Show. Ever...
...fact, the Obama campaign took pains to strike a positive note a day after Obama's nearly 10-point loss in Pennsylvania, which some pundits attributed to the negative tone of campaigning between the Illinois Senator and Clinton in the weeks ahead of the Keystone primary. Obama campaign manager David Plouffe vehemently disavowed a Washington Post report Wednesday that they intended to go heavily negative following the loss in Pennsylvania-dredging up old sores such as former President Bill Clinton's impeachment and the Whitewater scandal. "We are not going to talk about those issues in the campaign...
...university campuses and the Farsi-language blogosphere, Iranians are following the American presidential race more avidly than ever before. That's partly because they're eager for the exit of President Bush, who branded Iran part of an "Axis of Evil" and implicitly raised the possibility of a military strike against the country over its alleged nuclear weapons program. But the Iranians' interest is also driven by a sense among many Iranians that the candidacy of Barack Obama offers real hope for repairing the U.S.-Iranian relationship. Commenting on the Iranian preference for a Democrat in the White House, Sergei...