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...Pseudo-logical speculations about Arafat’s tactics do not carry much explanatory power in this context. Leaving all principled arguments concerning the right of self-determination aside (and there are quite a few to be made), Israelis failed to recognize their own vital interest in making the fruits of peace tangible on the other side of the green line. Sadly, as is often the case, one failure led to another. After more then a year of violent conflict, everyday life has become unbearable for Israelis as well. Many of them feel under siege, unable to safely use public...
...middle of the prospective student tour at Yale when we stopped by the library. Trying as best I could to take the moment home with me, I used my entire role of film shooting the silly pseudo-medieval architecture. It was grandiose and slightly cheesy—it was a church built for students looking to worship the gods and goddesses of academia. It was wonderful and I was in love with Yale, convinced that their strong English department and this library with its gargoyles—not angry dragons but students hunched over their books—would foster...
Kneecap-fracturing, pseudo-Satanic, Slipknot-esque anger-rock, this is not. Welcome, friends, to nu-metal. Once, long ago, metal bands staggered into your town to loot and pillage. Then something weird happened, and suddenly a whole bunch of geeks simultaneously discovered the powers of shredding guitars. Now we have groups like Alien Ant Farm, who neither scream their words nor smash their instruments, though they’re not above “spanking” their guitars to get a giggle from the fans. AAF greet their audience with an amiable, if calculated, “everybody have...
Audiences are expected mainly just to embrace the show’s score, which vacillates between drippy pop arias and tempo-racing recitatives—with some pseudo-Oriental music thrown in for good measure. Coming around to such material requires that the cast and crew go above and beyond the call of duty, and such an effort isn’t apparent in this production...
...meat market scenario: lots of alcohol, lots of bass, cheesy black light, lots of scantily clad chicks getting in touch with their inner exhibitionist on the dance floor, lots of guys standing on the sidelines picking out that evening’s prey…It was a semi-pseudo-predatory atmosphere, but it felt too staged to be threatening. Frankly, it was pretty hurtin’…I guess the only other time I felt things were a little suspect was at a club where they pulled the ole pre-mix-in-a-cooler...