An American Primitive, Forged in a Crucible of Blood and Oil
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âThere Will Be Blood,â Paul Thomas Andersonâs epic American nightmare, arrives belching fire and brimstone and damnation to hell.
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Much like his bloody epic about the death of Christ, a new Mel Gibson production about the collapse of the Mayan civilization is angering members of the culture it depicts even before it hits the screen.
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He was in the firefights of Fallujah. He saw gaps in America's arsenal that he believes can only be filled when America's elite puts its sons on the battlefield. A plea for selective service.
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This stage version of Kurt Vonnegutâs antiwar 1969 masterpiece faithfully retains the novelâs pivotal moments. But woe to the spectator unfamiliar with the material.
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Painful recollections of a bygone eraÂs racism have emerged with the excavation of an old Mississippi mill townÂs pool.
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History looks primed to repeat itself.
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Daniel Day-Lewis gives a towering performance in a unique film about idealism and greed in the American West
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By Joel Hood, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Mar. 11--THE ACREAGE -- The prospect of putting the first gas station in The Acreage has erupted into a bitter culture clash over the character of this western community.
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From his roots in rural Michigan, Eugene Armstrong became a modern-day adventurer whose work in construction took him to war zones in Bosnia, Angola, and, finally, Iraq.
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American Indians are reconnecting to their heritage through a game that was invented by their ancestors.
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There's something old-fashioned about Tyler Perry.
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The opening this week of the National Museum of the American Indian makes this a slightly different country than it was last week.
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The United States' war on terror is often portrayed abroad as an attempt to impose a bellicose culture, driven by the cultivation of fear.
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For some Americans, weary of war  in Iraq and uncertain about the future, the race horse  Barbaro's fight for life was a welcome tale of hope in the face  of adversity.
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Gun-wielding tribesmen. Al Qaeda attacks. Kidnappings of Westerners. Yemen has long conjured up images of wild badlands, fit only for the intrepid traveler.
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A cultural turf war is being waged across America.  On one side are the traditionalists who shear and spray and fertilize and  take great pride in their picture-perfect lawns, as well they should.
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For 65 years, the wreck of the USS Arizona has been leaking oil from its grave at the bottom of Pearl Harbor, staining the water, visitors often say, as if it were the ship's blood.