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...Dove. Ring one up for the classic literary under-statement of the year. The notoriously dense late-Jamesian style, elliptical dialogue, and near-obsessive concentration on internal thoughts and consciousness guarantee an uphill battle in achieving upper-end-mainstream/borderline elite moviegoer appeal. Softley and screen-writer Hossein Amini have succeeded in crafting an intensely physical adaptation that takes enough sweeping liberties and simplifications to make James scholars cringe or shrug, but retains sufficient subtlety and sensitivity to be dramatically compelling...
Jude, a careful, finally powerful film adapted by Hossein Amini and directed by Michael Winterbottom, places its hero and heroine in the context of a society that rejects their mild bohemianism. Jude (Christopher Eccleston) studies for the sheer pleasure of the text; Sue (Kate Winslet) flaunts her agnosticism and struts in bars, turning a cigarette into a smokestack (a gesture used so well in Francois Truffaut's Jules and Jim, the classic film about the perils of loving a liberated woman). They are also the modern homeless: their evictions from "decent" homes set up an atrocity that still shocks...
Geller eventually worked out a deal with theDuncan yo-yo company to be the distributor of theyo-yo in Israel. He sold about 1,000 and started amini craze at his yeshiva...
...display of guerrilla derring-do. A colleague of Khomeini's chided them by saying, "You're only upsetting the reporters," but minor shootups persisted throughout the day. The leader of the attack on the hotel, a former student who said his name was "Amini," agreed that it was dangerous to have so many armed civilians in the streets. But soon, he added, "they will all run out of ammunition, and when Imam Khomeini gives the word, we will take back the guns...
...Amini, who was taught to read by mullahs, spends at least $10 of the $700 he earns each month on Khomeini pamphlets, magazines, books and tapes. When he is home he teaches what he has learned to his neighbors. He says proudly, "All of my friends follow Khomeini because they are opponents of the Shah...