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...railroad builder. We first see him competing against a spike-driving machine. Standing on a rock above the crowd, he laughs confidently in the face of their disbelief at his prowess. Thankfully, Henry, as one of the few black popular legends, is neither a politically correct icon nor a cardboard character, drained of his ethnicity. He is one of the group, yet with his own story. When Henry talks with Daniel about father-son relationships, he speaks wistfully of his own father, sold downriver because he was a slave...
...full stomach began to growl embarrassingly when I saw the rice-stuffed grape leaves, quiche, tabouli and curried chicken salad--Eureka!--gourmet food (at least compared to those cardboard, so-called Harvest Burgers we eat in the dining halls). I encountered cheese heaven, full of cheeses with names that sounded like people (Sao Miguel) and places (Double Gloucester). Even the names I couldn't pronounce, like Krinos Kefalograviera, sounded better than cottage cheese. My eyes widened when I saw the sandwich bar and the make-your-own salad bar. Oh, freshly squeezed juices and fresh fruits: Asian pears! Starfruit! Organic...
This results in interesting characters, not mere cardboard facades. "Exotica" works in large part due to the intense and talented cast, who understand the depths and complexities of human emotions and are able to convey them with amazing subtlety...
...handy Plexiglas guillotine. Not a human being in sight, just robot restocking machines trundling back and forth on a grid of overhead catwalks and surveillance cameras hidden in smoked-glass hemispheres. I stroll through the gleaming Lucite wonderland holding a perfect 6-in. cube improvised from duct tape and cardboard. I stagger through a glitter gulch of Gummi fauna, Boston baked beans, gobstoppers, Good & Plenty, Tart'n Tiny. Then, bingo: bulk jelly beans, premium grade. I put my cube under the spout and fill...
South African police raided Winnie Mandela's Soweto home today and hauled out several cardboard boxes of evidence as part of a bribery investigation. The government minister and estranged wife of President Nelson Mandela was out of the country on a work-related trip as authorities pursued allegations that she received $21,000 in bribes and was slated for thousands more in monthly payments for helping a firm secure three government construction contracts. The offices of Mrs. Mandela's anti-poverty program and the homes of other suspects also were searched. In addition, TIME South Africa correspondent Peter Hawthorne reports...