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...Muslims felt that they, too, were under attack; the scrutiny was not welcomed. The media is hostile toward them, some Muslims claim, and ignorant about their faith and life experiences. It was a reminder of the nation's mood after the riots at Cronulla beach last December, where young locals and Lebanese Muslims went on a criminal rampage. With each new episode, it feels as if the gap between Muslims and their fellow citizens gets wider: hearts harden, fear seeps in, unreal stereotypes become set in concrete. But that's not happening in those communities where Muslims live in large...
...MIAMI - Treatments at the hotel spa's Couple's Suite - Dinner at Azul restaurant with a six-course tasting menu and sommelier selections - Beach cabana with bento-box lunches - Four-hour shopping tour with stylist and personal assistant - Picnic-lunch yachting excursion - Luxury gift bag including Gucci and Neiman Marcus products...
...profile in the Salisbury State University Literature Film Quarterly, "And I guess that's the way I still see movies - I want them to be occurrences, to just seem to be happening." In his Oscar speech, Altman compared the movie process to "making a sand castle at the beach." Actually, his movies were more circuses than castles, and Altman was the ringmaster, using his whip not on the actors (who loved the improvisatory freedom he allowed them) but on the audience (whom he wanted to get his point about the erratic, intransigent nature of the modern American...
...Then one summer when I was about 8 my mom took off her engagement ring to wash some dishes. After the kitchen was cleaned up, we went out for a walk on the beach with her friend Brenda and her 6-year-old daughter, Sally. When we returned my mom realized that her ring was gone. It wasn't in the sink, or down the drainpipe which my dad tore apart, or behind the counter tops. It wasn't in her pocket, or in the bedrooms...
...wasn't until hours later that we realized what happened to the ring. Sally had found it on the sink and had brought it to the beach with us during our walk. She confessed that she was wearing it with the stone turned down - sneaking peeks when no one was looking at the sparkle I liked so much. We did not notice. And we did not notice when she dropped the 1.5 carat diamond in the sand where it was never to be found again...