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...entirely believable throughout. Perlman made a shrewd decision in casting Samuel H. Perwin ’04 in two roles. As the Balladeer, he sings simplistic folk-style description and commentary on the first three completed assassinations. After the Balladeer is driven from the stage by a horde of bitter assassins, Perwin reappears in the final scenes as Lee Harvey Oswald...
Alas, the food is no better than the service. Customers seeking to experience Southern comfort food may devour tasty collard greens whose bitter aftertaste sadly recalls the disappointments of the night before. Unfortunately, it’s all downhill from there. The bread pudding is certainly creamy—but should bread pudding really be creamy? Tepid Eggs Florentine fester atop an extinguished flame, providing a daunting challenge to those who may still feel queasy. And, at last reckoning, it did appear that Florence was in Italy. The appearance of Eggs Florentine at the buffet can thus only be explained...
...Toyoda Toshiaki's Blue Spring also takes on adolescence through an all-boys school. Though dressed up as celluloid eye candy, the film is seethingly bitter at its core. The setting is a young-yakuza breeding ground where everybody wants to join someone else's gang or start his own. Boys kill each other at school. Authority is a distant rumor. The boys' only respite comes through playing a heart-stopping variant on the game of chicken: they stand at ledges 30 meters above the concrete and see how many times they can clap their hands before grabbing...
...that is gone now. The world has learned a bitter lesson—or perhaps it has not learned it, since so many continue to prate about the crimes of Israel, the innocence of Palestine, and the need to end the famous “cycle of violence.” This rhetoric is a relic of an earlier time, when the sufferings of the Palestinian people—their poverty, their existence as a subject people, their stifled aspirations of independence—were rightly laid at Israel’s door...
...narrative starts with Sage as a precocious child being raised by her grandparents and mother on a vicarage in the squalid Welsh town of Hanmer. Life on the vicarage feels unrealistic as Sage paints a bitter, almost gothic picture of her grandparent’s failed marriage and the general filth that pervades the house, the town and herself. Her grandfather, the vice-ridden vicar, is an alcoholic adulterer who even has an affair with his daughter’s best friend. Emphasizing the dirt, both literal and figurative, Sage is plagued by lice. Her family refuses...