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Last week, the New York City Council again mounted its legislative soapbox, overreaching into the private lives of the Big Apple’s citizens as it has been disturbingly wont to do of late. Yesterday’s target? iPod-wearing pedestrians. Today??€™s? Free speech...
...speeding up and slowing down certain parts, the director toys with traditional warfare cinematography. The choreography runs the gamut from standard epic-movie fare, to edge-of-your-seat brilliance, to an unintelligible blood orgy. Shot entirely on green-screen, the sets and scenery adds artistic detail unparalleled in today??€™s action films. Special effects elicited gasps from the audience a number of times, despite some unrealistic-looking decapitations. A few good actors buttress the action, to a point. In particular, Gerard Butler’s believable performance as Leonidas, King of the Spartans, rallies not only...
...communities in which they exist, not to Howard Stern’s deranged antics.Historically, radio has been successful because of its ability to attract listeners and keep them tuning in for special broadcasts and new music.Satellite radio has adopted the format of everything that is wrong with commercial radio today??€”generic classic rock and pre-planned programming sap any sort of individual character from the different satellite stations.The radio industry needs to be focused on technologies that can bring radio back to what it does best in terms of live music and new ideas. Leave talk about satellite...
There have always been efforts to restrict or ban material from young eyes, but overall, today??€™s children have access to a range of sophisticated literature that would have seemed astonishing just a few decades ago. This is to the credit of children’s librarians, who routinely and effectively fight censorship...
...concept of victimization doesn’t limit itself to the political arena. Perhaps the oldest stage, as well as the one most relevant to young adults between the ages of 18 and 22, is the theater of sexual relations. The intersection of gender and sexuality at today??€™s Harvard resurrects a feminist rallying cry, but as a question: Is the personal still political? Marital rape is, after decades of lobbying, a crime in all 50 states. Battered-wife syndrome is now a part of the cultural discourse. What falls outside the new boundaries between the two realms...