Word: junger
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...speak of the storm--the title character in The Perfect Storm, the adaptation of Sebastian Junger's 1997 nonfiction best seller that opens this week. We do not speak, however, of the $140 million film. For more on that, you, along with the Warner Bros. executives, can read the critics or check out the box-office grosses after opening weekend. (You'll know them; they'll be the ones with the gnawed-down fingernails and little voodoo dolls bearing a striking resemblance to the July 4 competition: Rocky, Bullwinkle and Mel Gibson...
Sebastian Junger's book could only speculate on the actions of Tyne and his men since, for reasons we can't explain, none of the crew would talk to him. The book was as much a history of commercial fishing as a story of one ship in a storm. So screenwriter Bill Wittliff has given a little storyline to Tyne (George Clooney) and the other Andrea Gailers--except for the black in the crew; he is allowed to provide only background nobility. Murph (John C. Reilly) gets all sniffly and teary bonding with his son. Sully (William Fichtner...
...more of a nationalistic font than a Nazi one. It is based on medieval German designs, and was certainly not the creation of the Nazis, though they propagated variations of it until 1941 when Hitler halted its official use. Yet Haacke's previous works, like 1994's "Ernst Junger," make it hard to fully absolve the artist from Giuliani's accusations. In that installation, done also in Fraktur, the artist directly associates the typeface with Hitler. Given that this motif was also used in 1988's "Und Ihr habt doch gesiegt" (And You Were Victorious after All), it might...