Word: deafness
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...world, cops, criminals and civilians alike are incompetent, brutal or both. There are no bullet ballets, no climactic face-offs in dove-filled churches or exploding fireworks factories. Even if To's comedic ear occasionally goes tone-deaf (I have a hard time laughing at a cop stomping a teenage triad to the brink of death, which To plays for slapstick), PTU is a refreshing subversion of an entire Hong Kong genre of films that seek easy heroism in rogue cops out for justice and sharply dressed gangsters who live by the code. In PTU there is no code...
...cello so he can lie forever in the arms of a young woman who only has music in her heart. The affair does not end happily. Indeed, few of Rhodes' tales have conventionally happy endings. For example, in one of Timoleon Vieta's romantic detours, we read of the deaf and diligent daughter Aurora, who falls hard for a local hoodlum, to the horror of her whole family. All, that is, except for the canny grandmother, who tells Aurora she is doomed to act out one of the oldest stories in the book; the one where the bad boy makes...
...death to discredit the opposition. Fire Alert RUSSIA Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov ordered a fire-safety survey of all Russian schools following the deaths of 54 children in two separate school blazes. Twenty-two children died in northern Siberia and 32 died at a boarding school for the deaf in the southern republic of Dagestan. Due to chronic underfunding, many Russian schools are poorly maintained; last year there were 700 school fires. Sand Trap ALGERIA More than 1,000 soldiers and border guards joined the search for 29 Western tourists missing in the Sahara desert. Germany sent an élite...
...first responders that the President is now calling on to protect the likely targets of terror. The money was not saved for other projects; it was just left on the table. The Massachusetts Legislature has repeatedly called on Bush to release the funding, but the Administration has turned a deaf ear. Only recently did the President provide $11.6 million of a promised $556 million that was supposed to have been available to the state last June. The money came too late to prevent layoffs of police officers and firefighters, and the calendar for future aid is unclear. First responders make...
...people) besides simple happiness: that of the peasant who feeds himself from the fruits of his labors, with no need for the Western products that have made him a dependent consumer." When Bizot points out that Cambodian peasants are destitute of almost everything, including imports, Douch is deaf to him: years before the triumph of the Khmer Rouge, both the man and the system had sacrificed basic human values for the sake of abstract, lethal rhetoric...