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GOOD NIGHT, VIETNAM
Hilarious headline in the Melbourne Age of Australia:Anti-Kerry ad mars presidential campaign. "Mars" it? Reminds me of the old war song — World War I, that is, for [More...]
WHY CAN'T WE TALK ABOUT IT?
A couple of years back, I mentioned the fatwa against Salman Rushdie and received a flurry of lively e-mails. It was Valentine's Day 1989, you'll recall, when the Ayatollah [More...]
FEAR OF THE SAME
I’m thinking of joining the Bloc.
In the end, for whatever reasons, Quebec was the only province prepared to punish the Liberals for Adscam, Flagscam, [More...]
FOUR BAD SIGNS
A couple of months back, Sudan took time out from its hectic schedule of ethnic cleansing in Darfur to get elected to a three-year term at the UN Human Rights Commission. The US representative [More...]
SLUMMING FOR PRESIDENT
During their triumphant 1939 tour of Canada, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth took a brief detour south of the border to visit the Roosevelts at Hyde Park. It was the first [More...]
THUNDERBIRDS
You have a tough choice at your local Roxy this week: you can go and see Spider-Man 2, which is a superb example of how to adapt a Sixties pop-culture favourite and get everything right; [More...]
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CHRISTMAS IN CAMBODIA?
John Kerry is too strange to be president. I don't mean "strange" in the way of his predecessor. Al Gore, the first Android-American to run for president, was weird. But Kerry's [More...]
SUMMER STOCK
While The New Criterion takes its July/August break, we're posting a couple of pieces on the shows everybody knows and the fellows who wrote them. Scroll down for Mark's profile of [More...]
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KING KONG'S QUEEN
Fay Wray, 1907-2004
According to the “old Arabian proverb” that opens King Kong:
“And the prophet said: And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty. And [More...]
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