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...Intercultural and Race Relations for the Complexities of Color writer’s series to discuss his book, “Before I Got Here: The Wondrous Things We Hear When We Listen To The Souls of Our Children.”Underwood said his book outlines his belief that children have a surprising insight that comes from a connection they have to their spiritual life before the current one.“I’m not talking about reincarnation,” Underwood said, adding that he was referring to the path one makes from the spiritual world...
...reason, as even a cursory rereading of Mere Christianity attests, is that despite a certain datedness of style and reference, Lewis' brief for Christian belief is superbly organized and easy to follow. He was not a great aphorist, but he had a genius for the deceptively homey metaphor (the book abounds with pennies, trains, mousetraps, pianos) and the extended polemical line that detonates in climaxes such as his rejection of the idea of Jesus as primarily a moral tutor: "You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon...
...seduce Archduke Wilhelm (Michel Bos), a member of a European guild plotting to destroy the United States. Zorro must stop the dastardly scheme: in come the sabers and muskets! However, these badly-choreographed, ten-on-one battles are sickeningly artificial. Enjoying them is less a question of suspending belief than throwing it off a cliff and leaving it for dead. “Legend”’s one-dimensional excuses for characters are as mediocre as the action scenes. Elena is by far the worst of these. Campbell keeps her too busy with the movie?...
...Vegas entrepreneur Valerie Bent, 36, for example, capitalizes on the male belief that women don't bluff to bluff big time. Bent partly financed the founding of her new clothing company, Big Feet Pajama, with her winnings at the casino tables. "I'd go with my husband on Friday and Saturday nights, dressed to the nines in my stilettos," she relates. "The guys would look at me like dead money--sure to lose. They flirt with you to keep you at the table--until you start winning. Then they get very quiet...
...credit, the actor-director-adapter approached this job not as a solemn duty or an egotistic stunt, but in the sensible belief that the greatest work in dramatic literature damn well deserved to be filmed in full. Next to this, all other movie versions, from Laurence Olivier's to Mel Gibson's, seem like samplings--a Reduced Shakespeare Company run-through of Hamlet's greatest hits...