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Archives for December 2003

FURY OF THE COSMOS

December 3, 2003 by cmackie

Have a look at this eye-popping stuff from the Hubble Telescope. It may take a short while to load, but it’s worth the wait. The combination of the moving images and the music by Australian Web designer Richard Pree evinces a feeling of otherworldliness rivaling anything by Stanley Kubrick. Some people say the images resemble abstract paintings. […]

91 YEARS YOUNG

December 3, 2003 by cmackie

Leave it to Studs Terkel to put things in perspective. “Colin Powell, we know, is the African-American butler to the new Bertie Wooster,” he tells Salon in an interview about his latest book, “Hope Dies Last: Keeping Faith in Difficult Times.” Here’s the full quotation and the context: You notice I dedicate the book to a […]

THE WEAK STUFF

December 2, 2003 by cmackie

What’s wrong with this picture? Roy Disney’s resignation from the board of the Walt Disney Company was big news yesterday. Today, Sharon Waxman, in a follow-up in The New York Times, reports: “Roy Disney’s parting words to the company his uncle built were harsh, but few resonated more painfully than the charge that the Walt […]

DER GROPE MEETS
THE UNINDICTED CO-CONSPIRATOR

December 2, 2003 by cmackie

The time was 1991. The place was the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Calif.  Der Gropenfuhrer helicoptered in from the set of the first “Terminator” sequel. The Unindicted Co-Conspirator was star struck. It was a meeting of minds. “I’m a Republican because of Richard Nixon,” Der Grope proclaimed. Is he “a Nixon Republican at heart?” Sandy […]

JUST SO WE DON’T FORGET

December 2, 2003 by cmackie

It yesterday’s news, I know, but worth a reminder: Donald Rumsfeld won < EM>“Foot in Mouth” honors from Britain’s Plain English Campaign for most baffling comment by a public figure, defeating Der Grope for the booby prize. In case you don’t recall, here’s Rumsfeld’s winning remark: “Reports that say something hasn’t happened are always interesting […]

MUGS’ PRIMER

December 1, 2003 by cmackie

No movies for me over the big L-tryptophanic weekend. I spent it luxuriating in the novels of Eric Ambler, the daddy of all thriller writers. Never a huge fan of genre fiction, I’d read some of the mystery and spy classics by the usual suspects — Hammett, Chandler, le Carré, Forsythe, Leonard and a few others — […]

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