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...offender is “Hannibal,” which clearly aspires to be a dance track but, for all its echoes of New Order and layered instrumentals, never achieves liftoff, sinking instead into a repetitive morass. None of these tracks are exactly bad, but they all feels slightly aimless, lacking both the propulsive physicality of Caribou’s dance music and the fragile beauty of his spaced-out electronica...

Author: By Daniel K. Lakhdhir, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Caribou | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

These flashbacks are pretty obscure at first, but it’s easy to guess that they’ll eventually reveal why Brett was in jail. Knowing little about the movie’s characters that could render their aimless excursion very gripping, this curiosity regarding Brett’s past is about the only thing driving the plot forward at times. There’s no immediate answer among the flashbacks, though a love story begins to unfold in there, eventually emerging as the foremost narrative element of the film...

Author: By Parker A. Lawrence, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Yellow Handkerchief | 3/23/2010 | See Source »

...nicely written "Living Long and Living Well" advised, "Finally, have a purpose." Life's purpose should be understood early in life, or the journey will be like an aimless drive without proper directions. According to the Hindu philosophy, which advocates a long, happy, healthy and blissful life, the primary purpose of life is to righteously do one's duty, with honesty, love and justice. Yoga and meditation provide the techniques for gaining a long, blissful life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...command in Pakistan is under pressure from the U.S.'s steady campaign of drone strikes, and the jihadists' indiscriminate cruelty has earned more revulsion than support from ordinary Muslims. And yet even if terrorists have been reduced to wearing explosives in their underwear, they are still able to find aimless, religiously fired or underloved young men to carry out suicide missions. And while al-Qaeda scientists in Yemen and western Pakistan have not fully mastered the chemistry of high-temperature charges needed to detonate compact high explosives - or acquired deadlier weapons of mass destruction - it is reasonable to assume they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What We Can Learn from Flight 253 | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

...making sense, which it decidedly is not. There is a pretense of political parable—an honest Iraqi who shelters our heroes, a stereotypical condescending American contractor preparing to exploit a country whose people he cares little about—but it’s a series of aimless clichés that don’t even add up to a clichéd conclusion...

Author: By Yair Rosenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Men Who Stare at Goats | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

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