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There is folly aplenty here: klutzy drug lords, nattering detectives, angels on bungee cords. Oh, and Willem Dafoe as a death figure named Emit Flesti -- which makes sense only when spelled backward, and then not nearly enough. But Wenders has always worked on the wild side; even his previous film, the botched Until the End of the World, was a misstep so grand and elaborate it was like a clown's jig on a high wire. In Faraway, So Close! the dance lasts almost until the end of the film. And for those two hours it seems almost seraphic...
...Perhaps a prayer can stop a Black Talon. But a pocketbook probably will not. The bullet is designed to unsheathe its claws once inside the victim's body and tear it to pieces. That's what Colin Ferguson was firing, to the right, then the left, as he walked backward through the third car of the 5:33 train to Hicksville, New York, last Tuesday night. And the passengers who crushed toward the exits or dove under their seats or tried to hide behind their handbags did not stand much of a chance. By the time it was over, Confino...
...civil rights impulse from the 1960's is dead in the water and the ship is floating backward toward the shoals of racial segregation," according to the study, which was directed by Gary Orfield, professor of Education and Social Policy at the Graduate School of Education...
...classics like the Cadillac touring cars of the 1930s. "I don't want my drivers to be thought of as flashy, opulent and dumb," he says, "but smart, bright and responsible." What kind of a look might that be? "What else?" says Gale, maybe seriously, and smiles. "Maybe cab-backward...
...feels no remorse about cheating a government that he believes has failed him by its lies and mistakes. "First you have to guarantee food, then you guarantee health and education," says Octavio. "Their priorities are backward. They spend on sports! You can't eat sports." Yet this son of a family that was well off before the revolution is not keen about the capitalist changes. "I think it's an error to give purchasing power to the dollar," he says. "My family lost financially from the revolution, but we gained spiritually, we gained morally...