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...whole Hoover bunch piles into a Volkswagen bus so that Olive can take her shot at the Miss Sunshine crown. The vehicle is a perfect symbol of the family's tenuous grip on reality: only the third and fourth gears are functioning. That metaphor is pitch-perfect, but the film works a little too hard at proving the vileness of beauty pageants. When the M.C. (Matt Winston) croons God Bless America into the contestants' innocent ears, he pretty much summarizes American awfulness. It is a broad and fertile field, and the Hoover family plows it desperately in a comedy that...
...bomb hit an hour before she was meant to report to the American embassy for evacuation. "When that happened, I thought, ?Well maybe I'm not supposed to leave Lebanon.'" Hamidi did however make it to her home in New York - via military helicopter, two planes and a Greyhound bus. Shehayeb returned through the embassy, as well...
...There are guards posted outside every restaurant, bar, major bus stop, café, movie theater, swimming pool, large office—anything where there are clustered groups of people,” Kroshinsky wrote...
...ducked into a store front where we waited for quiet before running to the bus station...we spent the next half hour trying to convince a sherut driver (a minibus taxi) to drive us out of the city,” she added...
...ration cards, passes to leave the camp, medicine, or sponsorship for education—all basic refugee rights denied to people here every day. I do my best to cozy up to UN employees, but what about after my white posse and I get in our jolly little bus and take off? Recently, we’ve been talking about establishing a formal complaint system, but for such a thing to work, all the stakeholders first need to acknowledge the refugees’ humanity and their right to demand justice. From my talks with these UN and NGO employees?...