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When Adela begins to awaken to her own sexuality, it is at a temple covered with erotic statuary and guarded by a large troop of anarchically aggressive monkeys. Later, going to testify at Aziz's trial, she must drive through a crowd raging at her, and a man in a monkey costume leaps on her car, pressing his face menacingly against the window. Is it this echo that impels her to testify that she was the victim of a hallucination and thus free Aziz from his anguish? The movie is silent on the point, allowing us to make what...
Thirty seven years ago, Jawaharlal Nehru declared that India had made a "tryst with destiny," a pledge to "awaken to life and freedom." It is time for us to redeem that pledge once again. The belief in freedom and independence that was so much live on in the hearts and minds of the people of India. The lamp that was lit by Mahatma Gandhi and Jawarharlal Nehru must...
That evening Quarles, who lives in a dilapidated apartment building one block from the Governor, went back to the mansion and surrendered. He told police that he had originally intended to break into the house, awaken Cuomo and ask to be reinstated in his $7,500-a-year state job as a janitor, which he had lost in 1981 because of absenteeism. Once inside, Quarles became frightened and decided instead to take the loot. He said he planned to return the items a few days later in the hope that the grateful Governor would reward him with a job. Cuomo...
...comes with a twin-size foam mattress, overhead light and climate-control unit. More lavishly equipped versions, costing up to $3,900 each, feature color TV, radio, telephone, tape deck and hot-drink dispenser. Despite design improvements, McLaren concedes, it may be some time before Americans awaken to the benefits of capsule accommodation. So he plans to cater to a captive market: overcrowded prisons, where a rapid expansion of facilities has been ordered by the courts. MAC1 systems, claims McLaren, will cost about $8,500 an inmate, compared with as much as $60,000 a prisoner for conventional cells...
...students. It is engaged in making students safe for ideas." Finally, the most reasonable people will often have a hard time deciding which communications are worth hearing. For example, even a statement as offensive as the Pi Eta letter may have done more than any learned tract to awaken some readers to the attitudes and prejudices that can underlie what might otherwise seem to be merely "innocent humor" Such insights into one's own inner feelings, even by only a single individual, can represent a gain of considerable value...