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...Hubbard science-fiction novel of the same title, the album portrays various characters and places in the book, representing its often surprising plot developments in a new aesthetic dimension. To the Stars (the book) takes place on an interplanetary spaceship, the Hound of Heaven, and centers around the tragic lives of a crew subject to Einstein’s “time dilation theory” (as mass approaches infinity, time approaches zero). Traveling at near light speed across the galaxy, the Earth ages hundreds of years while they see merely a few “ship?...
...never very clear, Michael tries and fails to assassinate an ambitious Corleone street soldier named Nick Geraci, who then becomes his rival and nemesis. As plots go, it's a little thin, and Winegardner doesn't have much of a feel for Michael. Al Pacino played him as a tragic Mafia genius, a dormant volcano of repressed emotion, but here he's just an icy, hypercompetent sociopath...
...fungibility of military power - as if it were the one supercurrency that could buy everything else: political clout, hearts and minds, democracy. In Iraq, we have learned that the power to knock a man down doesn't teach him how to be a good democrat. The second was the tragic (or almost criminal) indifference to the deadliest problem in the affairs of nations: the gap between means and ends. Your Administration's ends were driven by cosmic ambitions: bring democracy to Iraq, wipe out Islamic terrorism, remake the Middle East. All of this with 130,000 troops who were...
...unbecoming for a corporate executive, so Brad rationalizes his sessions with “existential therapists” by insisting they are “pro-active and action-oriented.” While all of the characters in Huckabees seem primed to arc from ironic distance to grand, tragic catharsis, Jude Law alone provides the emotional proximity the film coaxes you into longing for and then so cruelly denies...
...this illegal war in Iraq? What is the object of it all? The U.S.-led action has caused chaos. Numerous Iraqi towns are in turmoil, with limited electric power and no central authority in control. Casualties are mounting; more than 1,100 U.S. soldiers have died. How many more tragic family bereavements must there be before logic prevails and our leaders get in touch with reality and decide to cut our losses in this no-win situation? Ron Wood Bridlington, England...