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...incident undermined one of the pillars of Bush's campaign: that he is trustworthy and that Gore, like Bill Clinton, is not. On issues ranging from taxes to Social Security, Bush has asserted, "I trust the people." Yet he did not trust them to understand and put in context this blot on his record...
...Harvard. And Darren Aronofsky '91 went to Harvard. I was talking to him and I was very disappointed-I was disappointed by your institution. I was talking to Darren in casual conversation one day and I mentioned Puccini, the music of Puccini, I can't remember what the context was, and he had no idea who Puccini was. I was really upset by that. I went, "Darren, Puccini? Madame Butterfly? Tosca? Do you know operas?" He went, "No, what is that...
...into more of an ensemble piece (though Mary still tends to dominate) and helped to root the dramatic action in a reality which poltergeists tend to pretty readily disrupt. Though such decisions inevitably raise questions of the sanctity of authorship and the extent of directorial privilege (especially within the context of modern works), Shohet defends her choice to cut the mother's ghost. "Not having an actor play her allows the audience to see her through her daughters, which is how she lives on beyond the play-in their sometimes conflicting memories of her," she said...
...such meteorological events occurred within the context of a Shakespearean play or a Greek drama, the bizarre weather in Britain--concurrent with unusually severe typhoons in Taiwan, floods in Bangladesh, fires in Italy and droughts in Burundi and Iran--they would have stood as an omen portending the death of a king or the end of an empire. Humans have long interpreted the wrath of the (literal) heavens as punishment for their earthly transgressions. If our modern, secular selves were to sit up and take notice of ten thousand years of weather interpretation, what evil deed might be to blame...
...Charlie's Angels" also offers us cute, peppy Cameron Diaz as the most adorable of the Angels; Drew Barrymore as the most vulnerable of them (she seems actually to be acting now and then, which is probably a mistake in this context); and Lucy Liu as the most ferocious, albeit in an interesting, crabby way. Under the guidance of a music-video director who is known simply as McG, they all manage to not quite fall out of their costumes numerous times...