Beauty of making history irrelevant
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The National League Championship Series boils down to one simple fact: The Cardinals must win today and Thursday, while the Astros need win only once, to advance to the World Series.
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Elmore Leonard once said that the key to telling an exciting story was leaving out the parts that people skip. âQuxiotic/Honor de Cavalleriaâ is composed of little else.
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FOXBOROUGH -- History never felt quite this ho-hum. For weeks, cautious Patriots players downplayed their run at the record book, insisting their systematic construction of a winning streak dating back to October of 2003 was of little or no consequence. We were chastised for forecasting the possibilities and discouraged from attaching significance to a milestone that would not produce a ...
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Oliver Stone&#39;s epic account of the many long and pointless conversations about glory-seeking and peasant-conquering conducted by Alexander the Great between battles - is nothing if not thorough.
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A regional bank proves once again that boring is beautiful.
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It has been well recorded that the mid-nineties are best known for sudden popularity of independent cinema, but independent from what? The term "indie" is as slippery when applied to films as it is to music. The studio at the vanguard of this "revolution" was Miramax, which was long a subsidiary of Disney, and as for the "revolution" itself, it unleashed more painful and derivative Pulp Fiction clones than it did anything truly revolutionary. It was bled dry, turned inside out, repackaged, and sold back to the masses until it became the paradigm of unhipness. This seems to be the nature of all revolutions, from the Soviets to the Sixties; the bullshit always comes full circle.     While it's easy to be cynical of all so-called revolutions in hindsight, what one can't be cynical about is the intense enthusiasm audiences had for the so-called independent cinema of this era. To every person who ever dreamed of being in the director's chair, it seemed like all one needed to have the new hit movie was a vast knowledge of pop culture, the ability to write pages worth of rambling dialogue, and a Visa card.
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FoTW Inability to follow a story by reason of anger, part 73
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Comment is free: Tristram Hunt: The absurd plan for a Soviet-style celebration of Britain's historic glories and empire is no way to forge a sense of heritage
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There is nothing stimulating about this album.
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You can forget about  "Fahgeddaboutit!" as far as television catch phrases are  concerned.
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Comment is free: Simon Jenkins: This ban is a classic instance of centralised meddling which ignores the potential of local self-discipline.
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Photos of French presidential contender Segolene Royal in a bikini are seen as trivialising politics.
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WHEN history repeats itself, no-one minds if the experience was enjoyable in the first instance, but watching Paula Radcliffe on Friday night was as harrowing as being made to sit through your least favourite movie, this time without the popcorn and only
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âRise of the Silver Surferâ is an existentially and aesthetically unnecessary sequel to the equally irrelevant if depressingly successful âFantastic Four.â
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"Hitler's Hit Parade" is hardly a trip down memory lane. This film's juxtaposition of romantic songs and wartime brutalities can cause viewers to squirm or turn away in horror.
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The American Museum of Natural Historyâs show is enlightening, yet frustrating:  It presents a free-flowing flood of data and has an overly insistent and predictable message.
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Technology brings a whole new light to history.Technology brings a whole new light to history.Technology brings a whole new light to history.