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In no other city in the world are millions of visitors so conscious of the portentous lives of people who lived here thousands of years ago.
Many consider it portentous that former NAACP President Benjamin Chavis is now a Nation of Islam minister.
The modern world comes at us as a randomly proportioned cocktail of the portentous, the terrifying, and the trivial.
Bode's implication--and it underlies all the countless portentous references by the press corps to the room's classless guests--was clear: This is political sleaze at its lowest, with Clinton putting a price tag on the presidency and auctioning off our national integrity and memory in the process.
Directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, it's a mishmash of Hong Kong sword-fighting ghost epics, Kafkaesque virtual reality fantasies, Cronenbergian visions of cybernetically enhanced flesh, Alice in Wonderland surrealism, post-apocalyptic urban grunge, Terminator -like battles of man vs. machine, and portentous lumpen-Zen posturing ("I can only show you the door.