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Overstimulation, hypergreed and a kind of idiocy--those three stooges--have a way of tumbling into the room along with technological progress, which gives them respectability and theological cover. Mr. Badger, Toad's killjoy twin, makes these points: 1) each transformative moment will be superseded by another one, tomorrow or the next day--all marvels are disposable; 2) innovations are not always wonderful; 3) the world is round and time is circular; human nature is constant, but 4) may be damaged--or what is worse, humiliated--by novelties, which (like '70s neckties or television in any decade) may have about...
DIED. JACK NANCE, 53, actor, who starred in David Lynch cult classics, including the movie Eraserhead and the TV series Twin Peaks. Nance was found dead in his home in South Pasadena, California, a day after being hit on the head during a fight at a doughnut shop...
...Hamlet's absence, Ophelia goes picturesquely mad while the star gets to catch his breath. Winslet's decline is an edifying horror show; Christie gives all her urgent glamour to Gertrude's one big speech; and Michael Maloney's subtle power as Laertes makes him a kind of good twin to the melancholy Dane. Hamlet, after all, hates his stepfather because he seduced the lad's mother and killed his father. But Laertes has similar reasons for hating Hamlet, and here he has the same carnal, bloody and unnatural itch for Ophelia that Hamlet has for Gertrude...
...level of the street, however, the Friedman outrage served only to intensify the bitterness of the two communities in Hebron, a mutual hatred that is unsurpassed anywhere else in the Holy Land. The mother of twin boys Akram and Abdel Karim Atrash, 16, both shot in the leg by Friedman, had but one thing to say from her sons' hospital room: "Those settlers should be butchered." For their part, the Jews of Hebron this time were careful not to give public praise. But they have a monument that to the Arabs speaks louder than words: a shrine outside Hebron erected...
...could have been the best of both worlds. One Berry would throw the ball, the other would catch it, and a legion of Harvard football fans would fall in love with the level-headed twins from Bel Air, Md. This situation almost became a reality, but while rookie wide receiver Adam Berry chose the Crimson’s Saturday’s opponent, Princeton, and his twin brother, freshman cornerback Andrew Berry, decided to come to Harvard, the Crimson is more than happy with its Berry—even if he hasn’t landed exactly where originally expected...