Word: communion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...independent director now aspires to make shorts. Mystery Train (1989) was three anecdotes in search of narrative baling wire. His new Night on Earth splits its time five ways: taxi drivers pick up fares in Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, Rome, Helsinki. A little biography, a vagrant communion through the rearview mirror, then on to the next town. If Jarmusch keeps at it, he will become the first postpunk director of 30-second commercials...
...story too has a once-upon-a-time quality. He was born in a remote hill town outside Naples, the son of an impoverished farmer. In his autobiography he recounts that when he was nine, his parents were distraught because they could not afford a pair of traditional white Communion slippers for his six-year-old sister. The afternoon before the event, Ferragamo borrowed tools from a friendly local cobbler and stayed up all night making a pair of perfect white canvas shoes for his sister...
Explaining the need for unity, Aristide said that "communion with those around you, from your friends to your country, is absolutely necessary to achieve happiness...
Aristide described those currently in control of Haiti as "a small group not in communion with the idea of unity, who want to take Haiti all for themselves...
...spoke of communion with her"ancestors"--the "Native Americans, animals, andcreatures" who once lived on the land encompassedby the Circle Sanctuary...