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...damaged goods, as much as he pretends not to be, which makes his vengeance all the more furious and fun to watch. Shrugging across the screen with a chip on his shoulder, Daniel Craig plays Bond with the right amount of reserve and just enough pathos to make him seem human. He must be part machine, though, considering the ease with which he waltzes through the film’s relentless action sequences. (There’s nothing as cool as the parkour chase from “Casino Royale,” but the pacing and variety have never...
...thought. “Others may have believed themselves to be the beneficiaries of such happiness before. They are fools.” He whistled stray phrases of some half-remembered hymn as he walked down the hall. “How hollow my former joys seem to me now.” He paused before a mirror, and beamed at the picture of poetry and health that glowed back at him.“Before, I only smiled. Now, I laugh.” He looked at his reflection and laughed. His cheeks flushed, to his great satisfaction.Frederick felt...
...chorus ironically reiterates.“Last Words,” chronicling J. Smith’s final utterances, reaches the melodic peaks of Travis’s earlier music, although there are new, darker undertones. Jingling, jangling, paced by drumstick clacks, it manages to seem almost upbeat despite its pessimistic lyrics. Apparently, J. Smith looks forward to the next world: Healy breaks off about singing “of the last words” to cede the spotlight to an unusual Andy Dunlop guitar solo. In “J. Smith”—the most experimental...
...east side of the San Francisco Bay, averages a major earthquake once every 140 years. The last one occurred in 1868, exactly 140 years ago. The U.S. Geological Survey puts the odds of a magnitude 7 earthquake occurring within the next 30 years at 60%. Thirty years may seem like a long time to residents, but it's barely a tick of the clock when it comes to the earth. "We know it will occur," says Allen. " The question is simply when...
...Ideologically, the crowds who assembled to hear Obama on election night were linear descendants of those egg throwers four decades before. They too believe in racial equality, gay rights, feminism, civil liberties and people's right to follow their own star. But 40 years later, those ideas no longer seem disorderly. Crime is down and riots nonexistent; feminism is so mainstream that even Sarah Palin embraces the term; Chicago mayor Richard Daley, son of the man who told police to bash heads, marches in gay-rights parades. Culturally, liberalism isn't that scary anymore. Younger Americans - who voted overwhelmingly...