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...last year, the Prime Minister's approval rating in the polls stood at 25%, the lowest of any British leader since World War II. Once war broke out, her unflinching determination to bring victory back from the South Atlantic stamped Thatcher permanently in the public mind as the bold, decisive leader she had always wanted...
...call for a resurrection of ijtihad - the early tradition of challenge and inquiry that demanded a re-interpretation of the Koran relevant to the current era - is bold. Were she alive at the time of publication, she most certainly would have been charged with blasphemy by fundamentalist circles. Bhutto offers no new revelations - any close scholar of modern Islam will have made the same observations. But her reiteration of the Koran's message of peace and tolerance bears repeating; it is one that is often drowned out by the more headline-grabbing missives of those calling for death to America...
...lost to Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen. The Academy went for old style over new, as it did in withholding Oscars from Brando's more sensitive brethren, Montgomery Clift and James Dean. Both were multiple nominees; neither won. And like Heath Ledger--who in Brokeback Mountain gave a bold, pioneering performance--neither Clift nor Dean lived long enough to be given an honorary award...
...first time I ever went to the opera, my grandmother had to bribe me with a piece of chocolate cake during each of the three intermissions in order to keep me in my seat. However, I have since come to appreciate the garish costumes, bold sets, and powerful singing that make opera unique. Though the Dunster House Opera (DHO) Society’s rendition of “Così Fan Tutte” is a more relaxed interpretation of these operatic traditions, Saturday’s opening night performance was entertaining and carefully composed, successfully bringing the high...
...health to their native arid land. The carvings are given to children to teach them the spirits’ stories and about Hopi culture in general—and the ones shown in the exhibit serve much the same purpose.At first glance, Ducharme’s photographs are strikingly bold, reminiscent of finely detailed portraits. The magnification of the dolls’ faces to ten times their original size, combined with a serious enhancement of color manipulated through the use of Photoshop, creates a larger-than-life appeal that resonates with the spirituality said to be embodied within the dolls...