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Directed by Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire is the story of two angels who descend to earth to watch and listen in on the lives of lonely Berliners. The two angels seemingly float through Berlin streets, focusing for a few moments on a slew of ordinary people and their emotions: despairing, weary, optimistic and youthful, recording each moment for some heavenly record. However, the angels’ quiet, subdued mission is interrupted when one of the angels, Damiel, falls in love with a trapeze artist Marion. Shot by renowned cinematographer Henri Alekan, Wenders’s film captures the transcendent...
Close to 300,000 spectators will descend on Cambridge starting today, as students and University officials prepare for the 39th annual Head of the Charles Regatta...
...this game is played. "Stick some money out the window, and they don't check anything," says a self-described mujahid. Ordinary residents like Zinaida, a clerical worker with a teenage son, are happy just to see another dawn. "Night is our hell," she says--a time when soldiers descend on homes, beat down doors and take away young men suspected of rebel activities. Most are never seen again...
Hordes of job-hungry seniors and on-the-ball underclassmen will descend today upon the Office of Career Services’ annual Career Fair...
...last day of our weeklong trip, we travel this new road, going over mountains to A Luoi-where the main branch of the old trail veers off into Laos-and then take Road 49, a tortuously winding piece of the old trail, east to Hué. As we descend, I hear a mighty roar. It's Mr. Truong. He's finally figured out the gears on the Minsk and he's grinning as he passes us all. He is still wearing the helmet. But in my mind's eye, I picture his combover flying triumphantly in the wind, coasting down...