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...terrorism can never be entirely erased. Tightening airport security is like squeezing one end of a balloon: if airlines become too difficult a target, terrorists will point their weapons at a bulge elsewhere. "There is always," says international terrorism expert Victor LeVine, a professor at Washington University, "some window of opportunity." Whether an act of terrorism brought down TWA Flight 800 or not, some of those windows could be closed before tragedy can strike again...
...human pitbull (and unintelligible) Begbie (Robert Carlyle). Wandering about, shooting up, picking women up, and so go their days and nights. They even throw in a drug deal to wrap things up. Unfortunately--almost tragically, fizzing with this much energy and hype--the film quickly tosses out the window any pretentions to portraying addiction or free-wheeling, troubled youth. Adapted from the popular Irvine Welsh novel of the same name, it hasn't so much lost something in the translation as added far too much film-y junk that leaves one too fuming to appreciate several fine, often grotesque performances...
...concrete cityscape outside the train window transforms into rolling green hills, the people, too, are transformed. The ties come off, the faces relax. People laugh...
...which allowed me to meet amazing jazz players at the airport (with the big sign I made with red magic marker) and participate in seminars on how to use art to teach, I guess it wasn't a good sign that I had to draw a picture of a window by my desk to imagine the outside world. Palm trees, turquoise water, white sand, sunset--I liked my picture...
...idea that sci-fi is not so much a window to the stars as a mirror of our dark selves is supported by David Hartwell, an editor at Tor Books. "The alien represents metaphorically what's in the real world. The aliens in '50s films often represented communists--faceless invaders who were going to take over our country. The mysterious beings of 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968 represent our transcendent future. Independence Day sounds like the old form of sci-fi: the foreign invaders intend to wipe out our cultural heritage--ethnic cleansing. They don't want to come...