TEHRAN/WASHINGTON — The Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly one-fifth of the world's petroleum supply transits daily and upon which the global economy depends with the desperation of a junkie on Tuesday morning, has turned a vivid, almost luminescent shade of neon green.
In response, the U.S. Department of Defense has quietly mobilized what it is calling a "specialized aquatic vegetation management task force" — a contingent of National Park Service personnel who, until last week, were maintaining the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
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[Editor's Note: Jackie's previous dispatch from SIFF, as well as this one, discussed the Czech director "Miroslav Vašíček," who still does not exist. We checked again. — Ed.]
I filed my last dispatch from Shanghai in a state of what I can only describe as provisional crisis. I had spent what seemed like years on the fourth floor of the Shanghai Film Art Center watching algorithms approximate human expression, and I had seen, for forty-five seconds, a light I could
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Reporting live from the National Mall, Washington, D.C., approximately twelve feet from the water
The Reflecting Pool smells like a lake that has decided to stop trying. There is no sound of water against the concrete edge. I recognized
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...Monday night, June 15th, two thousand people in their best clothes filled the Lyric Opera of Chicago. There were awards. There were speeches. There was, presumably, an open bar and whatever catered thing you feed two thousand people who've just spent forty-five minutes congratulating each other on being in the same room — poached salmon,
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