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...Even in The New York Times, it’s just got a lot of silliness in it—like a page one story about whether Obama plays basketball with too many men,” Branch said...
...scenes as well as the immediacy of one-on-one combat and melee face-offs. The sheer vastness of Woo’s Chinese navy and army—with tens of thousands of ships extending past the horizon—encourages a dizzying suspension of reality. Whether witnessing enemy horses blinded by mirror-shields, naval ships destroyed by suicide fireboats, or diseased, dead soldiers floated across to the enemy’s shore to infect their army, the film’s frenzied violence permeates every frame...
...account of oversexed people manipulating universes of multiple potential partners through their cell phones is, as he admits, a little too colorful to be representative—who are these people texting? How can I meet them?—he does make one accurate observation. Whether it’s thanks to the movies, the prevailing winds, or perhaps changing global temperatures that make bedsharing essential to survival, the culture has changed. We can’t pretend we still live in those halcyon days when your parents arranged your whole romantic life for you and the only things...
...David Brooks and the like fail to acknowledge that we live in an era where potential partners expect to exchange vast amounts of personal information before any dating can take place. In the days of gentlemen callers, all that you knew about your expected significant others was whether they enjoyed glass unicorns and whatever else you could glean from a 30-minute conversation. Now, you have to fill out 25-page online questionnaires specifying your every preference, sometimes with disastrous results. Once I filled out an online dating form saying that I had completed “some college?...
...more crucial question is whether we have access—the less crucial question is whether we own it or not,” said Task Force Chair and Harvard Divinity School Professor David C. Lamberth...