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...touch. The famed Bates Motel, made more Martha Stewart gothic than Herman Munster Victorian, now accepts the Discover card. In one hardware-store scene a Gulf War poster hangs on a wall not far from a sign advertising knife-sharpening services. Grazer asked that the film be "scarier and sexier." While some nudity and language that Hitchcock ditched due to the censorship restrictions of his day were restored, Van Sant has struggled to resist sheer exploitation. "I never thought this was a film that needed beefing up," he says. "The subtleties are its strengths...
Clinton does not seem to mind. Scarier still, he does not seem to notice. He seems to really believe that his tortured legalisms, his artful dodges, his facile wordplay, his resort to idiosyncratic definitions that recall nothing so much as the "private language" of some autistic children, constitute an authentic escape from falsehood. It makes you wonder whether what appears to be Clinton's cynicism is instead a cognitive deficit, that he has by now and by habit lost all recognition of the difference between truth and lies...
...acre Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, 40 miles east of San Diego, so federal trackers and state game wardens could kill a mountain lion that stalked three hikers in recent days. At one point, the lion even swiped at one of them, but it missed. And it gets scarier than that. In May, Mary Jane Cooder was taking pictures during a walk in Big Bend National Park in Texas when she saw through the viewfinder that her eight-year-old was upset. "I turned around and saw there was a big mountain lion getting ready to pounce," she said. Cooder drew...
Dylan was suddenly a singer no longer. He was a shaman. A lot of people called him a prophet. In a way, it must have been scarier than being booed. Everything he sang, said, did or even wore took on a specific gravity that made it harder and harder for him to move. The music became so important to so many people, took on such awesome proportions, that Dylan could respond only with the ultimate sanity: silence...
Nuclear war is but a scarier version of everyday reality in its potential for disruption, eruption, combustion and conflagration. The flow of daily events has the capacity to change the world--for better or worse--to a substantially different and often unrecognizable place. The worlds that we encounter in five, 10, 25, 50 years will hopefully be changed for the better, though history warns us otherwise...