Word: blessing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some comments compliment Berry's work. A student raving about the lasagna wrote, "God bless your ovens. May they forever roar with delicious fire...
...Ampato (elev. 20,700 ft.), in what is now southern Peru, knowing that her life would come to an end at the summit. Her sacrifice, considered the greatest honor her people could bestow, would appease the mountain god--the source of good fortune (in the form of rain to bless the crops) and terror (snowstorms, earthquakes and avalanches) to Inca culture. Did she march bravely to the center of the ceremonial platform, or was she dragged there in a drugged stupor? Was she killed by the priests who brought her, or was she left to die from exposure, cold...
...Although he loved the movies Menace II Society and Boyz N the Hood, he feels the gangsta film genre may be exhausted: "I don't pay to see 'life in the hood' movies anymore. That story's been told. If someone has something to spill from their heart, God bless 'em, they should...but if someone's just saying, 'Oh I'm gonna keep doing this 'cause it makes money,' I'll be the first person in line to punch that person in the head...
...impossibly low $7,000. Now he has made a sequel--for 1,000 times the budget, which is still nothing to Hollywood accountants. This time it's called Desperado. The avenging guitarist is played by actual movie star Antonio Banderas, but he's still a reluctant gunaholic. ("Bless me, Father," he confesses, "for I have killed quite a few men.") Salma Hayek, a Tex-Mex houri with soulful eyes and bosoms till Tuesday, is the sex interest. And Living in Oblivion's Buscemi drops by to give Desperado the Indie Seal of Approval...
...bless the muckrakers. your Milestone stirred up fond memories of critic George Seldes [CHRONICLES, July 17] and his wonderful newsletter, In Fact, which contained news "the press refuses to print." In the 1940s he published a shocking account of smokers and cancer and sadly concluded that in deference to advertisers, the mainstream press would not touch it. It was two decades before anyone else seriously broached the subject. STEWART EAST Santa Clarita, California