Word: containers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pidgeon's songs contain echoes of the myths and legends of old Europe. "There was an old witch/ Used to live in this house," goes The Witch. "Now I'm making it mine." Pidgeon was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, raised in Scotland and educated in England, and her music reflects her background. Perhaps because she and her husband have roots on different continents, several of the CD's songs deal with flying and separation. "It takes a long time to get over there," she sings on Seven Hours, co-written with Mamet. "Nearly seven hours in the air ... From...
Equally disturbing were reports that efforts to contain the epidemic in Asia, a particular focus of last week's session, were being crippled by shame and denial, the same forces that hindered efforts in the U.S. and Europe 10 years ago. Experts fear that overcrowding and other factors in Asia could make the epidemic there even more devastating than it is in Africa...
...order to contain the disease, he said, deep social problems--barriers to open discussions of sexuality, economic inequity and sexual inequality--will have to be addressed...
...these things would be useless if the film did not contain performances to match. Campion's direction is perhaps her greatest achievement in "The Piano." A nearly unrecognizable Holly Hunter is simply amazing as Ada. Despite the fact that she does not utter a word during the movie, Hunter manages to provide a full-bodied portrait of Ada, so that the audience knows what she is thinking and feeling without her having to articulate it. Ada marks Hunter's best work on screen thus far. Keeping up with Hunter is Anna Paquin as Ada's daughter Flora. Paquin brings...
...absolute measurements, the Rwandan refugees filled infinitely less space than that taken up by a single explosion on Jupiter. But, paradoxically, images could not begin to convey the immensities and emormities of these settlements. The frame was too small to contain such an expanse of anguish. Photographers had to resort to visual synecdoche, hoping that a small part of the scene -- a wailing child, an emaciated mother, a pile of corpses in a freshly dug trench -- would suggest the horrors of the whole...