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...borrows some ideas). And at first, nobody but its creators took Dogme seriously - it took three years for a Dogme film to actually hit screens. But when one finally did (Vinterberg's The Celebration), it went off to Cannes and came back a hit. The tale of a 60th birthday party that collapses under the weight of a family's disturbing secrets, The Celebration won the festival's Jury Prize award. "My film was not meant to be a success," says a bemused Vinterberg. "That wasn't part of the plan." Even so, established directors adopted Dogme...
Horrible. A disaster. This was the stuff that got played at rich fourth-graders’ birthday parties. But it does feature the terrible lead vocalist grunting something about “a generation without soul,” which is surely the generation that ate up this train wreck. Wait…are we that generation...
...refer to the U.N.'s troubled 40th birthday [NATION, Oct. 28], but there is no doubt that the developing nations are greatly helped by the debating forum of the organization. And if by airing their opinions these countries are helped, then so is the world. Some of the U.N.'s agencies, like the World Meteorological Organization, the Universal Postal Union and the World Health Organization, also perform valuable functions. Fielding H. Nalder Rome Powers of Science...
...Soviet Union would never start a war. But in the reprinted speeches, the General Secretary often lapses into eye-glazing Marxist clichs: "The time we live in will go down in history as a time of intense class struggle in the world arena," Gorbachev stated on Lenin's birthday in 1983. "Imperialist reaction can hide behind many masks, but it cannot hide the fact that its foreign course is dictated, even today, by narrowly selfish class interests...
...December 27, 2004, was my first official day as commanding officer of the First Health Support Battalion, one of Australia's two Army medical units. It was my birthday too, and our family had just moved into a new house, so I was unpacking and getting ready to have 30 people over for a birthday lunch. I had two chickens in the oven and was just about to pop some champagne when my mobile phone rang. When I hung up I said to my Mum, well, I'll see you sometime. I rang my husband, who's a fireman...