Word: americanizing
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...listens to Radiohead. She has two sweatshirts from American Apparel and occasionally naps on top of old issues of Paste magazine, and if I offer her my Olive Garden leftovers, she will eat them - ironically. Especially the breadsticks...
...with these nuances, turning the military into a vague, malevolent force that spies from above on Ogden Marsh, then quarantines or removes the townspeople. By doing so it exploits the enmity, across the political spectrum, for people in power. Its sour view of government intervention would suit both the American Left in the Bush-Cheney era and the Tea Party today. As we watch the three people we care about go through the familiar motions of trying to elude capture and escape the plague, we have to find interest in their different reactions to having to kill former friends...
Artistically, the film’s use of “magical realism”—an artistic technique often used to characterize works of Latin-American literature and art such as the film “Pan’s Labyrinth” and the novels of Gabriel Garcia-Marquez—has drawn much critical praise, including from Theidon herself...
Llosa plans to attend a Harvard screening and discussion of her film, which will be coordinated by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies later this spring...
...presence in Dubai. News of the arrest has only been gleaned from accounts revealed by Iranian state-media sources and cannot be independently confirmed. On Feb. 25, Iranian state television broadcast footage of a supposed confession made by Rigi, saying he was flying to Central Asia to meet with American handlers at the U.S.-run Manas air base in Kyrgyzstan. Intelligence Minister Moslehi had already pointed his finger at Washington and the hand of the CIA, claiming to have evidence that Rigi was earlier housed at a U.S. base in Afghanistan and set up with fake documentation by the Americans...