For someone who makes his living on free expression, Stephen Hunter does not seem to have much in the way of tolerance for the free expression of others when it happens to offend him [" 'Aristocrats': A Dirty Joke That's All Laughed Out," Style,...

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Iraqi security forces shot two suicide truck bombers carrying highly toxic chorine before they could reach a government complex in Fallujah on Wednesday, but the explosives detonated, wounding 15 U.S. and Iraqi forces, the American military said.The chlorine gas attack was the eighth since Jan....

Thomas insisted he never harassed Anucha Browne Sanders, the Knicks' former senior vice president of marketing and business operations, who filed a federal sexual harassment lawsuit against him, accusing him of unwanted advances, discrimination and "demeaning and repulsive behavior," according to The Associated Press. He...

[In Repulsion] the murderer is dewily sensitive Catherine Deneuve. But, instead of discovering her through the eyes of others, as in the best of the preceding films, Psycho, we live life with her, look out on the world through her eyes—with the additional advantage that we can understand the ordinary human reactions to which she is blind. It's an admirable compromise between a conventional and a 'stream-of-consciousness' film. I won't dwell … on the film's &#...

Repulsion is Psycho turned inside out. In Hitchcock's film we see a double murder through the eyes of the victims—in Polanski's our viewpoint is the killer's. Polanski (coauthor, with Gerard Brach, of the original story) offers no psychiatric explanation for his heroine's behavior. He simply presents it, and if we choose to identify with her fears and her irrational ferocity that is our business, not his…. Within its limits, Repulsion is a flawless exercise: it esta...