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...majority of Iraqis, the future is bleak indeed. More than two million—most of them middle-class professionals—have left the country, with another two million internally displaced. This means that, for those who remain, the numbers of doctors, professors, university teachers, engineers and technicians available to them sinks by the day. Meanwhile, central government has more or less ceased to exist, leaving the provision of social services to local sectarian strong-men and their militias who allocate these services on a mainly religio-political basis. In short, most Iraqis now live in localities governed...
...Paradigm Hotel Rwanda (2004) The 1994 genocide serves as a wake-up call to the West, with Rwanda as a bleak symbol of ignored injustices everywhere...
...produce prices”—by limiting fresh fruit options and vegetables like spinach, brussel sprouts and summer squash, for example—“as per usual.” However, unexpected food price increases have made this year’s annual slump particularly bleak. According to Martin Breslin, Director for Culinary Operations, the price of chicken increased 11 percent, flour 18 percent, and milk a prohibitive 30 percent during the winter menu cycle alone. This inflation—recently the source of countless Economist and New York Times articles—is the symptom...
...Vegas suburbanites, before he disappears into the oblivion of the Nevada desert. There is clear fixation with recordings: a stripper becomes comfortable with her job by imagining herself in a movie; her perpetually filthy but charismatic boyfriend schemes to break into the pornography industry; a father escapes his bleak marital situation by losing himself in pornographic films. Bock meditates on how the filmed lose their power as their private moments are recorded, edited, marketed, and removed from their control. But he also examines how the viewer is affected by film: Newell’s parents can endlessly watch footage...
...thirty years is seamlessly interwoven with eerie shots of Austin’s underground aquifer and a haunting voice-over reading Wendell Berry’s poem “Santa Clara Valley.” Shots contrasting the hills of thirty or even fifteen years ago with the bleak suburbs of today provide a visual counterpart to the sprawl outlined in maps and diagrams throughout the film.But Dunn’s real coup is the interviews, in which a variety of characters speak with disarming candor. Ann Richards, former governor of Texas, is shown in one of the last...