Word: coreness
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...Bourne process is, as any film-school professor will tell you, the absolutely wrong way to make an action movie. "You lay down a story, you've got to have some core objectives and some core sense of what your sequences are gonna be, and then you really have to move forward and start to make it and trust that in the process you'll find it," says Greengrass. "A film should not be an airline meal. It should not be prepacked." In other words, that edge-of-your-seat feeling of watching a Bourne movie often derives from...
...moviemaking applied to the ordered world of the action franchise has produced a character, Bourne, wholly of the moment, rooted in the morality of today's landscape. "We all know we're in dangerous and ambiguous times," Greengrass says. "Bourne is not about wearing Prada. He's about essence, core, honesty and truth in a complex world." The movies work only because the director and star trust each other. "It's best not to look at it too close," says Greengrass of their relationship. "'Cause it's a bit like 'Why are we making such good music?' The minute...
...modern-day Japan, a nation not known for in-your-face protesters, voluble writer and peace activist Makoto Oda was an anomaly. In 1965, citing his core belief in "100% freedom for the individual," the author of the best-selling travelogue I'll Go Everywhere and See Everything co-founded a grass-roots "citizens' league" to oppose U.S. involvement in Vietnam. His group gained converts and motivated a generation of young Japanese activists. Oda, one of TIME ASIA's 2002 heroes, was 75 and had cancer...
...Jordan, Egypt, Bahrain and Morocco may also be invited. Saudi participation in talks with the State of Israel, which Riyadh has yet to recognize, would certainly mark a diplomatic breakthrough. But the Saudis made clear that they will show up only if the summit is aimed at discussing the "core issues" that stand in the way of a settlement. Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal described these issues as the creation of a functioning Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital, withdrawal of Jewish settlements from the West Bank, and the right of return for Palestinian refugees...
...virtually deaf for the next four days and relations with the neighbors were, for a few days, delicate. But the summer concert spirit of carefree irreverence and youthful dereliction survived. We successfully instilled in the children an appreciation for punk music and misbehaving, and from the cruel crush of core requirements, adulthood, and the appropriately fleshed-out tankini, I would happily continue to run and hide...