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...National wants tougher work tests for the unemployed, tighter controls on those claiming they are too ill to work, and welfare mothers to participate in work or training when their youngest child is of school age. Brash's message of personal responsibility and hard work is striking a chord with taxpayers. But, as one government social worker from Auckland (who asked not to be identified) has found, shifting the attitudes and behavior of younger people and residents of some geographic regions that have had little experience of paid work is an awesome challenge...
...things in my mailbox: season tickets to the opera and TIME featuring Kanye West on the cover. While I don't profess to be an expert on opera and hip-hop is far from my typical genre, I do know what I like--music that awakens a deeply emotional chord in my being. West's The College Dropout rotates in my CD player between operas by Puccini and Bizet. His lyrics and music are soul baring and thought provoking, and they speak to the human spirit the way great opera does...
Klein said antiwar protestor Cindy Sheehan and her group have "struck a chord, despite her naive politics and the ideology of some of her supporters." Perhaps in a year or two we will read in TIME about the "naive use of power and politics" by the Bush Administration...
...albums were always listenable but rarely arresting or tense. On Plans, the hooks are everywhere. Someday You Will Be Loved starts like a standard ballad until an exaggerated bass line kicks up during the first verse and gentle chaos begins. Marching Bands of Manhattan builds from a single keyboard chord into something joyful enough to counter the repetitions of "your love is gonna drown." On Crooked Teeth, each instrument plays a line that, isolated, could be the basis for its own hit. The melodies are hard to get out of your head, but the thoughts they carry are only pretend...
...then his white-hot hatred, are allowed to postulate. Similarly, flashes of grace appear, like epiphanies in the January snow. In church, after Marianne has been singed by Henrik's rage against his father, beams of sunlight burst through the window; it is the visual counterpart of the organ chord that greeted Marianne as she entered. Later there's a privileged moment when Karin is told of a career opportunity and the ecstasy of anticipation briefly floods her face, as radiant as that sunlit church. Bergman keeps energizing Saraband with such touchstones; he builds the edifice of the film...