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...fits and pop Percocets off-camera just like flesh-and-blood divas. Eugene Levy and Seth Green make fine foils, but it's their plush pals who will have you in, er, stitches. The show defies good taste and gets away with it, as when Greg falls under the sway of an Al Sharpton-like puppet-rights agitator. ("This is going to end with puppets rioting in the streets," Levy frets. "This is the Fozzie Bear verdict all over again.") But Wednesday, like its title, isn't clever enough to earn its self-satisfied tone. (We're spoofing...
...Santa Monica, a beach town known for its movie stars, the sun shines almost every day, palm trees sway on the boulevards--and the groundwater is poisoned. All over town, ugly drilling rigs mounted on trucks are boring 300-foot holes to trace the plumes of a pollutant that has leaked from the underground tanks of gasoline stations. The culprit: methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), an additive that makes gasoline burn cleaner but one the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has classified as a potential carcinogen. Half of Santa Monica's water supply is undrinkable--MTBE makes water taste like turpentine...
Under the sway of Klee's probing, wobbling, sinuous line, everything stable seems to be coming apart, and we are brought into a world that is simultaneously lyrical and absurd. There was something prophetic about this disintegration, but perhaps it was just as well for Klee that he died in 1940, on the edge of the worst war in human history. Could he have been happy in the atrocious second half of the 20th century? One doubts...
...America's attention may have moved on to talk of returning to battle in Iraq, but Shahi Kot is a reminder that the Afghan campaign is far from over. And that while technology will almost always sway the battlefield odds in favor of the U.S., there are no ground wars without casualties on both sides...
...Thursday night the I.S.U. board met to draft its plan. Le Gougne, an international judge for 15 years, would be suspended indefinitely for failing to tell the skating union immediately that she had been approached by people seeking to sway her vote. The only equitable solution would be to award a second set of gold medals to Sale and Pelletier while allowing Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze to keep theirs. For the first time, an Olympic medal decision would be changed as a result of a judge's misconduct...