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...moved on. At present, the village looks like it has been carpet-bombed, with piles of rubble rising out of the greasy water. Purwanto points out an especially large mound: the remains of the town's grandest house. His own more modest home is gone except for the broken stubble of the walls. "I was born at this house," Purwanto says, sucking contemplatively on a clove-scented cigarette. From a nearby mosque, still being used despite the rising mud, the call of the muezzin echoes through the abandoned village. "Where my parents are buried is covered by the mud," Purwanto...
...that the members running the booth have trouble dealing with negative responses or confrontation. “The people that run the thing, they’re like automatons. They don’t know how to deal with [confrontation], so they’re kind of like a broken record, almost brainwashed.” And while we might feel brainwashed coming out of that Monday morning class, most of us would prefer not to have a TomKat moment between breakfast and lunch. Actually, most of us would prefer never to have anything similar to TomKat...ever. Stay away...
...rate of broken marriages has risen steadily since Spain legalized divorce in 1981, but a recent reform allowing couples to accelerate the divorce process has caused those numbers to skyrocket. Spain now has one divorce for every 2.3 marriages - an increase of 74% in the past two years alone...
...much work remains. If the “ceiling” that still confronts LGBT people in this country—“don’t ask, don’t tell,” marriage prohibitions, and homophobia in general—is going to be broken, silence will not be the tool that does...
...characters, or just laughing because you feel awkward about their awkwardness. Since it brings together two peoples whose paths rarely cross, it’s no surprise that the movie is riddled with uncomfortable situations. Many of the characters are vaguely shy or withdrawn, communicating with each other in broken English. The connections they make are in unlikely places and between unlikely people: an unemployed man whose wife hates him and a second-string conductor who can’t seem to finish his concerto, for example, or an outspoken young woman and a formal old man. But this...