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Hollywood took a hint from Hallmark—if you call your movie “Valentine’s Day,” people are going to happily fork over cash to see it, no matter how forgettable...
...every gesture. Though laden with the narrator’s passionate obsession for Clara, “Eight White Nights” chronicles an essentially chaste love. Aciman denies the reader the full range of the sensuous prose that he unquestionably mastered in his first novel, “Call Me By Your Name,” and consequently creates a more emotionally tentative work...
Other performances, like The Drummers of the Pan-African Dance and Music Ensemble’s “Drum Call,” were directly influenced by Haitian art. In one thrilling performance, Sidi M. Camara paced back and forth across the stage while he drummed with inexhaustible charisma. The piece was a medley of vigorous Haitian rhythms, displaying the vitality of Haitian culture. While watching the performance, one got the irrepressible feeling that the energy that animates Haitian culture is still alive and well. Edwidge Danticat, as quoted by Dean Evelyn M. Hammonds, said of the Haitian people...
...Riding 1980” begins six years later with the appearance of the Yorkshire Ripper, a serial killer who has been raping, mutilating and murdering prostitutes in Yorkshire for years. The Constabulary has been forced to call in a special team to hunt down this killer, led by Peter Hunter, (Paddy Cobsidine) a cop who has already made enemies in the tight-knit, corrupt West Yorkshire Police force. Digging deeper into the conspiracies discovered by Dunford in 1974, Hunter is met with the same resistance and violence in his attempt to catch the murderer...
Test pilots call it "expanding the envelope," and it means flying a new aircraft at varying speeds and conditions to ensure it's safe to do so. That blazes a trail for other pilots to follow. In the same way, Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expanding the envelope for military accountability...