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...Next week will be the last In the (K)now ever! I’ll be quite sad to say goodbye to this, my little corner of the world. But be sure to tune in—I’ll be going out with a bang. The last column will appear in Arts and the rest of the final week festivities will happen online at www.somanintheknow.com. Expect celebrity cameos...
...before them in Hainan. All's well that ends well? By no means. China will keep pressing, and the U.S. will keep pressing back. Crises will recur - perhaps all the way to a new cold war. But remember how the first one ended: with a whimper, not with a bang. Cold wars don't turn hot in the shadow of the bomb...
...combination of cartoonish violence and ironic posturing that wasn't matched until years later, when Itchy and Scratchy started showing up on "The Simpsons." I think they were saying, "Forget about propriety. Forget about meaning. Forget about what music is supposed to be. Lose yourself. Bang your head into the wall." Is this a significant message? I don't know, I just loved it. It was pure sensation, a two-and-a-half-minute kick-ass blowout with hooks and a catchy melody, too! (Did I mention how utterly melodic the Ramones were? How the tunes stay with...
...markets made the timing exquisite. Central bankers and Treasury men hate making their moves against the inertial wind - it wastes juice to try turning the markets around - and whether or not Greenspan was actually market-timing (he'd prefer that you think not), he certainly got the most bang for his buck. With an earnings-based rally already on, the index charts all grew a near-vertical line at 10:50 a.m. when the news hit. Three hours later, the party was still going - the Dow was up over 400 points and the NASDAQ nearly 200, and traders were suddenly...
Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu wanted a "big bang" at the center of his astonishing first feature, Amores Perros--something that would slap it into rambunctious life, rather as the bigger astronomical bang did our universe eons ago. He found it in the car crash that opens his movie--a sudden, sickening blend of violently torn metal, wailing sirens, desperate screams and blood--lots of blood...