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...President to pop culture did their best to lay things out in black and white; it was the Cold War and the Russians were the bad guys. After a decade of ’90s action films that seemed to stick to a lone-warrior-versus-the-corrupt-establishment theme, Team America: World Police is a throwback to the kind of movie that casts the establishment as the good guy and everyone who goes against them are either evil or woefully misinformed. While, to many, such a theme may seem ironic, what makes this movie so pertinent and vital...
...record. At just over 40 minutes, it takes less than one turn of the clock to finish this disjointed brew, which combines screaming (á la their self-titled debut) with three or four thought-provoking, catchy melodies that manage to evoke the album’s intended theme, what drummer Branden Steineckert calls “that feeling of movement and momentum you hear in the music,” caused by “the life [they] lead, living out of duffel bags and waking up in a different city every...
...best tracks, such as “I Caught Fire,” “Yesterday’s Feelings” and “Light With a Sharpened Edge,” are those that place in the foreground the lyrics that build this theme of transient life. On the other hand, when lead singer Bert McCracken belts out “I’m not listening” for 25 piercing seconds at the end of “Listening,” it does little to contribute to the album’s lyrical...
...convince enough people he was ready for the big one. "A lot of people like John Howard," he adds. "I don't know why. But they do." Young father Scott Ison says the P.M. had appealed successfully to Australians' basest instincts, adding: "People would struggle to agree on one theme he believes in." Many are convinced that ads predicting interest rates would rise under Labor were decisive. "When you knock on thousands of doors," says the winning candidate for Prospect, Chris Bowen, "you get a sense of things. People wanted to vote Labor because of health and education, but felt...
This week’s theme would take a look back to the predictions of the Harvard University Band, as the members scrambled all over the field into different formations such as an “85” or a big “H,” while performing such songs as “The Stars and Stripes Forever...