Word: backgrounders
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...Meadows, who admits to once being a "skin" himself, argues that skinheads were amongst Britain's first anti-racists, mixing with newly arrived waves of West Indian immigrants with whom they indulged a mutual love of reggae and ska. Hailing from a staunchly working-class background, Meadows, 35, dropped out of school as a teenager and later made his first films while subsisting on welfare benefits in his native Nottingham. He hit critical acclaim with his 1999 second feature, A Room for Romeo Brass, set in a Yorkshire mining town on the skids...
...Gaza border crossing in January 2004. Riyashi is hailed as a courageous resistance fighter among Palestinians throughout Gaza and the West Bank, but the truth about what drove her to such a terrible act is much more complex. Palestinians in Gaza and Israeli internal-security experts who studied the background of her case say Riyashi's husband had discovered that she was having an affair with a senior Hamas commander. Among conservative Palestinians, as in other parts of the Islamic world, an adulterous woman is often punished with death. Riyashi was given a second option: she could become a martyr...
...such an endless thing to pursue,” Salazar says of the short.Although who Pidge is, or what exactly Pidge means, is unclear, the images and accompanying sounds linger even after the film ends. The hooting of an owl and the rush of wind that make up the background noise give it an eerie quality.Much of Salazar’s art has this same eeriness.“I am interested in the relationship between power and awareness, or lack of awareness, in the context of violence, and the sensation of living in a sort of fog state where...
...President in the Turkish Parliament effectively forced the democratically elected government into early elections. That raised hopes of an imminent resolution to the crisis, which was sparked by secular opposition to the nomination for the presidency of Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, a politician with an Islamist background. The Turkish lira, for example, rebounded on the news after two days of sharp losses. But that vote will not necessarily resolve the standoff between Turkey's Justice and Development Party, or AKP as it is known by its Turkish initials, and Turkey's "secular establishment," including the military. In fact...
...Alem?n, despite his millions, comes from a humble background. And he has nothing but disdain for the right-wing reform efforts of Liberal dissident Eduardo Montealegre, a Harvard-educated, U.S.-backed former banker who he refers...