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...Still, Nunn's progress report was bleak, and that was only half...
...daddy ever should a girl. When you been through shit like that, what’s one more skinny Chinaman? He ain’t so bad. He don’t beat you....He trifling. Like a pickpocket on 9/11,” she read. Despite the bleak subject matter, Tran’s direct and decidedly politically incorrect style drew peals of laughter from the audience. As a preface to his reading from his 2002 collection of prose poems “Dust and Conscience” and his recently completed manuscript “Four Letter Words...
...many attendees of Picture Balata’s opening reception last Wednesday, the event’s strong pro-Palestinian view of the Israeli occupation was explicit. The moving testimonies of three children from the Balata Refugee Camp in the West Bank, coupled with their bleak photographs, vividly portrayed the hardships that these teenagers have had to face in a volatile refugee camp...
Paul Verhoeven's Black Book is simultaneously a sexually charged, non-stop action movie about the Dutch resistance to German occupation in World War II and a bleak examination of the often morally dubious activities of the underground. Not all of the Germans are brutes; many of the oppressed are betrayers of their cause. It may be the most honest - and certainly the most exciting - movie about the secret war ever made. It also represents a comeback for Verhoeven, who left his native Holland in the mid-1980s for Hollywood, where he made big budget sci-fi movies like Starship...
...messy as his own, and he does it in a tumbling, heedless, but finally irresistible rush of action and imagery. We are obliged, at least this once, to give the devil his due - and to consider the possibility that he may even be, in this instance, the angel of bleak truthfulness...