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...embarks with his compatriot, Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) on his travels—powered, initially, by the namesake motorcycle, of course—bound for the southern tip of South America. He is a far more accessible figure, and his journey radiates a certain lost-soul aura to which even a hardened capitalist could relate...
...isolation. A State of Mind offers scenes of indoctrination in action as a "revolutionary-history" teacher exhorts junior high school students to hate the U.S. and drills them on Kim Il Sung's "three types of greatness." (The correct answers: greatness in ideology, greatness in leadership and greatness in aura.) And we observe a mother cheerfully cooking breakfast as a wall-mounted radio?which can be turned down but not off?blares propaganda...
Every year, people treat the council presidency as if it had been decided long before anyone declared candidacy. Council leaders groom future presidents and create an aura of invincibility that frightens challengers. The “next guy” gets anointed by the council status quo and a bunch of student group leaders fall all over themselves to kiss butt in the hopes of currying enough favor to make their grant processes run smoothly in the future. We are at Harvard, so tailgate behavior notwithstanding, I assume that we are pretty intelligent people. We should not have council presidents...
...death, though well anticipated, was nevertheless difficult for many Palestinians to absorb, not least because he had cultivated an aura of immortality by rejecting earthly comforts. He didn't have real friends, didn't particularly care for food, slept fitfully, never took vacations. When he wed, in old age, the marriage seemed like a sideshow, fatherhood an even stranger subplot. "No personal questions," he used to tell reporters, as if any creaturely detail would detract from the power of his cause. Even those closest to Arafat experienced him as a mystery, which was how he liked...
...embarks with his compatriot, Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) on his travels—powered, initially, by the namesake motorcycle, of course—bound for the southern tip of South America. He is a far more accessible figure, and his journey radiates a certain lost-soul aura to which even a hardened capitalist could relate...