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...first song on Arcade Fire’s newest album, “Neon Bible,” is the musical equivalent of the feeling a dog must get right before a storm. Starting off with a noise that only foreshadows the expanding thunder sound that follows, this portentous crescendo is finally interrupted by the percussive minor piano chords that go on to frame the song. Take this next to “Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels),” the opening song on the band’s previous and debut album “Funeral.” Like...
...acknowledged participant in that session was the five-foot tall Suh-Hyun Choi—one of the few female competitors—whose slight black boots fell like thunder on the mat in a sixth-round win, and who was asked by Lobb to participate in a special two-mat showcase exhibition at the end of the competition...
...people have strewn boulders across the road to stop intrusions. They are frightened. The sun is bright, vivid. A red-green-white-and-black Palestinian flag on a makeshift pole flies from the mosque in the distance. Now one sees the young Palestinian, wrapped in a dense, irrational thunder, walking up the road. His legs move like scissors, stiffly; his body is jolted with anger. His eyes, looking inward and outward simultaneously, are sightless with rage. They are red and shattered, as if a bomb had gone off inside them and fractured the window glass, behind which...
...cited for Curse of the Golden Flower. BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR ALAN ARKIN, Little Miss Sunshine JACKIE EARLE HALEY, Little Children DJIMON HOUNSOU, Blood Diamond EDDIE MURPHY, Dreamgirls MARK WAHLBERG, The Departed EDDIE MURPHY There's nothing like revitalized talent for Oscar bait. Murphy shows some of his early-career thunder in a serious role. JACKIE EARLE HALEY A kid actor who was out of the biz for a decade, he's poignant in the role of the child molester in Little Children. BRAD PITT O.K., he's still got Angelina. But Pitt's pro bono work as a grieving, angry...
...times nominated for Best Director but never a winner, Scorsese has lost three times to first-time directors (Robert Redford, Kevin Costner and Rob Marshall), once to Barry Levinson (Barry Levinson!) and once, two years ago, to Clint, when Million Dollar Baby snuck in and stole The Aviator's thunder. And its Oscars...