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Deep in the Brazilian back country, circa 1910, two families engage in a vendetta. The Breves are poor and losing the fight. One of their sons (Rodrigo Santoro) runs from it, finds love with a traveling entertainer (Flavia Marco Antonio), but not without bleak consequences. This movie is more emotionally remote than Salles' fine Central Station. But it is starkly beautiful and says something potent to a world in which nations, like these families, engage in mindless blood feuds...
...made was Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter (1978), which featured heroic performances by Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Cimino earned an Oscar as Best Director, and Walken got one for Best Supporting Actor. REIN J. VANDERZEE JR. San Antonio, Texas...
...weren't already murky enough, they grew darker on Friday, when Green Beret Sergeant Nathan Ross Chapman became the first U.S. serviceman to die from enemy fire during the three-month campaign. (In all, five Americans have died in Afghanistan.) Chapman, a 12-year-veteran communications specialist from San Antonio, Texas, was killed by small-arms fire Friday during an ambush near Khost, a city a few miles from the Pakistani border, near where U.S. warplanes had attacked an al-Qaeda training camp earlier in the week. A cia officer was wounded in the same ambush...
...PORTUGAL Reversal of Fortune Voters unhappy with the Socialist government's lackluster performance punished the ruling party in local polls, prompting the resignation of Prime Minister Antonio Guterres and setting the stage for an early general election. The opposition Social Democrats had their best electoral showing in a decade, winning control of local councils in nearly half of the country's municipalities, including those in Portugal's three largest cities...
...literature professor at Duke University and an Italian political philosopher living under house arrest in Rome would seem to have little in common. But in 2000 Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri collaborated to write the most talked-about work of social theory in years. By last summer, Empire, their sprawling best seller, had been translated into four languages, with six more translations in the pipeline...