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...Cairo when Sister Emmanuelle, 74, awakens in her hut with its dirt floor and gaping hole in the roof. After washing in a bucket, she sets out on a two-mile walk to attend Mass at the nearest church. She is clad in a white smock and a necklace
Roselah Hodrasadi, 37, clad in a long, soiled skirt and a black kerchief, is hacking away at the earth with a pick. She is trying to build a house. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has just given her a small plot of land, $500 in Lebanese currency, a canvas tent and ten bags of cement. She will need more than that to rebuild her family's life. Six months ago, the Ein el Hilweh refugee camp in which she lived was the home of nearly 25,000 people, a mixture of comfortable houses and rickety slums...
Although the script calls for a chorus of ignorant, bumbling natives, one doubts either Gilbert or Sullivan had scantily-clad, partying savages in mind. The entire chorus seems a bit disorganized; its members focus too much on their props--assorted alcoholic beverages and pipes--rather than the precision of their movements or the enunciation of lines. This misplaced focus on externals extends to the set designing. Although the set is aesthetically appealing and constructed with a lowering drawbridge, actors spend too much time moving props and pieces of the set around. Usually, one set suffices for an entire...
...film's conceit is promising at the outset. The highly effective opening scenes show a dove like flock of young choristers running out from under the dripping Gothic gargoyles of a London church. Among them we find the darkly clad figure of a sullen young man in his early 20s (Sting). This stranger begins deliberately accosting passerby on the rainy street with an "accidental" jostle and a subsequent "Why, you're the last person I expected to see!" Someone finally falls for this deception--Thomas E. Bates(Denholm Eihott) a harried middle-aged writer of mass-produced inspirational verse...
...People" section also shows us how the people dress--or don't. Just to keep reader interest piqued only once in a while the section sports a photo of a scantily clad Cheryl Tlegs of Christle Brinkley wearing a see-through bathing suit--or nothing...