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...noon approached, buses of “ordinar y Americans” continued to arrive. The crowd swelled to 100,000, filling the grounds. Its demographics had changed. A group of pink-cheeked New Englanders bore a “Vermonters against the war” banner; church associations filed in with their own signs. A Dart mouth College contingent of about fifteen students landed, looking fresh off a ski trip. By early afternoon, the masses seemed to now be mostly young white professionals, retired couples, conservatively-dressed Muslim families pushing babystrollers, middle-aged people in anti-war T-shirts...
...Pakistani postman strolled into the dusty courtyard of Mohamed Azeem's house and delivered the letter. Azeem didn't know anyone in America. The envelope had a pretty stamp depicting Mt. McKinley, and an unusual return address: Detainee, JBC, 160 Camp X- Ray. Even more mysterious, the missive bore the name of Azeem's son, Issa Khan, given up for dead months ago by his family...
...Pakistani postman strolled into the dusty courtyard of Mohammed Azeem's house and delivered the letter. Azeem didn't know anyone in America. The envelope had a pretty stamp of Mt. McKinley and an unusual return address: Detainee, JBC, 160 Camp X-Ray. Even more mysterious, the missive bore the name of Azeem's son, Issa Khan, given up for dead months ago by his family...
...flaw that colors everything in the film, however, is Taymor’s hesitant and wobbly direction. While the ballsy Titus knew well that it was visually arresting and never forgot, Frida oscillates nervously between an intense visual palette and boring displays of ho-hum period cinematography and horrendously contrived narrative set-ups that bore more than they evoke. Early in the film, the trolley crash that renders Kahlo periodically unable to walk is shot and edited with a shocking visceral quality and a brash artistic confidence. Immediately after, Taymor gives us a shamelessly trippy, grotesque animated sequence that quite...
According to Winters, Vellucci’s attacks on Harvard were not merely personal but also bore political utility...