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...paralleling the magnum opus of George Orwell, one of the 20th century's masters of clear, precise English prose, Rall sets himself up for a fall. Unlike Orwell, he lacks the clarity of ideas and language to make a convincing, or even understandable gestalt. The confusion of "2024" permeates everything from overall themes to simple panel-to-panel tone inconsistencies. For example one panel reads, "These extremists threatened everything ... they had to be killed," followed immediately by "Fortunately, nobody took them seriously..." Believe me, the pictures don't makes this any more understandable...
...recordings, his two string quartets were put out on vinyl by a label called Opus One. But Opus One hasn't made the switch to compact discs...
...Conservation? "A personal virtue," Cheney near-scoffed in a recent preview of his task force's opus. Efficiency? Cheney's report tosses $4 billion in tax credits for gas-pinching hybrid cars, and a handful of other initiatives meant to keep America getting more out of the power it has. But this is not a man who believes America is ready to don the proverbial sweater, not an America where only 25 percent of households are marrieds-with-children but 43 percent of the vehicles on the road are SUVs, pickups and minivans...
Local filmmakers desperate for a hit have either attempted to fuse the best of East and West into a magnum opus such as Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, or at least have upgraded the quality of their Hollywood rip-offs while retaining some of the elements that make Hong Kong film unique. Skyline Cruisers is an example of the latter, a big-budget, formulaic spectacle that shamelessly pilfers from Mission Impossible and Entrapment while remaining enjoyable, if ultimately empty...
...cartoon mentality was pushed to an even higher level in the Tarantino-scripted vampire caper From Dusk Till Dawn, which, in its own eternally trashy way, transformed the manic carnage of B-grade horror bloodbaths into high art. Throw in the effects-laden thrills of the teen horror opus The Faculty, and Robert Rodriguez is undeniably Hollywood's resident rock 'n roll master of kinetic operas of violence...