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Although she's hardly your average freshman, Jessica Lynch in a few weeks will be trying hard to blend in at West Virginia University. At 22, the former Army supply clerk, who became an icon after her dramatic rescue from an Iraqi hospital in 2003, hopes one day to be a kindergarten teacher. She spoke with TIME's Wendy Cole about coping with the attention and prefreshman jitters...
...superb blend of aesthetic minimalism and compelling emotions, it is not surprising that this film received the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes International Film Festival. The acting is uniformly first-rate; every actor from Murray to “girl on bus” plays his or her role with an attention to detail that contributes to the movie’s emotional power. Kudos to director Jim Jarmusch for eliciting such top-notch performances from all of his actors. He deserves perhaps even higher praise for writing this tightly-woven screenplay, which provides a springboard...
...this is understandable, for my time here has been a faithful blend of New England and Russian experiences. Puritan because I find myself cloistered away in a hamlet on a quest for self-improvement. And Russian because I am suffering a great deal...
...John Frum man, though he says his grandfather was the last chief to shake the mysterious visitor's hand. He sees in the movement echoes of his adopted faith - the figure in white, staying for several years before disappearing but promising to return - and says the blend makes sense on Tanna. "When Tannese first converted, we were in a dim light," he says, looking over the glistening sea. "But after John Frum came we knew our kastom should not be destroyed, that you can be Christian but know your culture as well." Which is perhaps why on Tanna, you will...
...movies' highest romantic era, no film achieved more entrancing heights than Wyler's adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' best novel. Citizen Kane 1941; Orson Welles Everyone's default choice for the world's greatest movie. Maybe so, maybe not. But it was (and remains) the movies' most fabulous blend of style and substance, full of beguiling camera and editing tricks as Welles traces the rise and fall of a man whose lust for power betrays his best instincts. Ikiru 1952; Akira Kurosawa In his final days, a government functionary discovers the joy of living. Kurosawa, justly celebrated for his muscular action...