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...much the same last week as the troopship Niassa arrived, carrying 1,400 soldiers from Guinea-Bissau. There were no brass bands, nor for that matter were there any high-ranking government officials. One by one, as the soldiers were demobilized on ship, they walked off carrying homemade guitars, cardboard boxes or cheap suitcases with their belongings. Many sported T shuts with pictures of Amilcar Cabral, the assassinated Guinea liberation leader against whose cause they had so recently been fighting. Some, but by no means all, were enthusiastic about returning home. Says Joaquim Pinedo Martins...
...scene were shot anywhere else than in the U.S., Bill would have been offered muffins, or croissants, or perhaps some rice cakes or mulled oats. Only in this country would Fruit Loops, small crunchy spheres of fruit-flavored cereal packaged in bright cardboard cartons by Kellogg's, be the order of the day. Nor, of course, could the rest of the scene have occurred anywhere but in America. Nowhere else would there be an arena-sized hall filled with tables rented out to people who gather for the sole purpose of playing poker. Nowhere else would two men be able...
...novel where Tarnopol has tried to order the disorder of his marriage lies, in reams of rejected drafts and re-drafts, in several cardboard cartons. On them the writer has pasted a quotation from Flaubert, speaking of how art can become "an outlet for passion, a kind of chamberpot to catch an overflow. It smells bad; it smells of hate." So, however, does Roth's book, despite all the cool distance of formal self-consciousness: it is impossible to read a book which treats a writer's life with such sordid particularity and not find oneself automatically extending the sordidness...
...journalistic plural pronouns. We found the Appalachia shop in a small open booth near places that push Polish and Central American crafts. It was full of stuffed animals, handmade cutting boards, quilts encased in plastic, patchwork pillow kits, brightly colored hearth brooms, and a couple of striking cardboard carton displays of something called "Jack Guy Folk Toys...
...reggae and bubble gum), anything anyone says about the movie's political content is laughable: the only idea embodied by Jimmy Cliff is something along the lines of "You Can Get It If You Really Want (but you must try, try, try...)." It's hard to know whether the cardboard villains are foiled by capitalistic perseverance, a few wellplaced macho knife slashes, or the kind of depressing mysticism that responds to oppression by chanting "forgive them Lord they know not what they do (oo-wah-oo)." Although the theme is similar, and the music also the focal point...