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...dramatic comeback. No down-to-the-wire nailbiter. No triumph over injury. No breakout performance...
Last year’s contest was close until the end, with UConn sophomore midfielder Becky Helwig scoring two goals, including the game-winner, to knot a 3-2 victory. Today’s game will most likely come down to the wire and only time will tell which team can come out on top in this battle...
...waiting for me to complain about it, keep waiting. No, I would not have given Emmys to many of the people and series who won them. (I would, for instance, have handed the best drama trophy to HBO's The Wire, which didn't get a single nomination.) But the Emmys are not about justice. They're not about determining the best performers and artists in TV. They're just about determining what people who work in TV like to watch on TV - and more important, what kind of TV they like to see rewarded...
Maybe we can. Looked at now, his pictures seem like late aftershocks of fascism. They just happened to blow up in the pages of Vogue. Newton's memoir all but laughs off the worst of Nazism, but leaf through his saw-toothed magazine work or climb the barbed wire of White Women, his first, unforgettable photo book, and you find yourself remembering what D.H. Lawrence said of Herman Melville: "Choosingly, he was looking for paradise. Unchoosingly, he was mad with hatred of the world." The Helmut Newton we meet in Autobiography is the one looking for paradise...
...next scene shows four unarmed Iraqi footsoldiers running into view, passing under a line of barb wire, as explosions rip in the background. They give an after action report to their commander: "We exploded it. We are Mohammed's Second Army. Whatever you order us to do, we'll do it, sir, for the sake of jihad, our country, our religion and our Islam, in one strong hand. We will die for the sake of Saddam Hussein and to bring him back to run this country...