Word: brightly
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...plot may sound like little more than anti-agitprop. And indeed The Blue Kite is by far the most excoriating depiction in Chinese film of Mao's ravages. But at its heart it is about domestic dreams, about a hope for better days that flies above the characters as brightly and vulnerably as Tietou's favorite blue kite. The rhythms of this family -- the meals and arguments, the worries about money and the sweet moments when a put- upon mom finds bliss playing with her bright child -- are handsomely observed and beautifully played. In Lu, Tian found one of those...
...crumbling New Quarter, Vietnam's most famous living author sits in a sweaty white shirt and dark blue polyester pants, his feet bare. Outside, most of Hanoi is celebrating Reunification Day. Giant posters glorify Ho Chi Minh and the 1954 defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu. The bright red national flag hangs above shop doors. Fireworks sound over Small Lake. In years past, Bao Ninh used to spend this day with the surviving members of his unit. "Not now," he says. "We've had enough...
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan called the U.S. economic outlook "as bright as it has been in decades," but sent the signals investors hate most: the Fed might again take steps to prevent inflation by boosting interest rates. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, trying to stand tall a day after the dollar sank to a post-World War II low against the Japanese yen, vowed action if needed to bolster the greenback. Economists said the two men are in a bind: allow the dollar to fall further, and potentially provoking inflation, or raise interest rates and dampen U.S. economic growth...
...Pampers, Mom. Get ready to explain to the kids why a good father should die violently and why a child should have to witness the death. And while you're at it, prepare to be awed at the cunning of a G-rated medium that brings to bright life emotions that can be at once convulsive, cathartic and loads of fun. In The Lion King, premiering in New York City and Los Angeles this week and opening around the U.S. on June 24, primal Disney returns with a growl...
...available to Bill Rago (Danny DeVito), a defrocked adman, is teaching an ill- defined lit course to a multicultural squad at an Army base. Why the commanding colonel thinks these studies are vitally necessary is not made clear. Especially since the kids turn out be quite sweet and bright and mostly doing fine in basic training. It's all really just a con on the part of the moviemakers, led by director Penny Marshall. The insensitive and materialistic teacher shall learn humility from his students. They shall in turn learn that underneath Shakespeare's big, arcane words and underneath Bill...