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...thing in these uncertain economic times--will look with righteous scorn upon such futile experience. Someone they feel who is either foolish or rich enough to work for nothing while still a penniless youth undoubtedly will still be both foolish and rich enough to do so later. Ergo, a distinct lack of natives chomping at the bit to join the lowly hordes of parliamentary researchers...
...province definitively buried the separatist banner last June, when it agreed to ratify Canada's 1982 federal constitution. In return, Quebec won passage of amendments recognizing it as a "distinct society," giving the provincial government increased power to preserve French-Canadian culture and allotting it the right to nominate three of the country's nine Supreme Court justices. "Quebec has won one of the greatest victories of her history," exulted Bourassa. His elation was shared by Canada's Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, himself a bilingual Quebecer, who could personally claim much of the credit for the deal that finally...
...commentators on the human condition." Alas, the history of American art criticism suggests that you need only sketch a bum to get popped into the pot with Daumier, or a street crowd to be compared with Hogarth. The truth in this case is the reverse: as a satirist, as distinct from a funnyman, Grooms hardly exists. His hearty sweetness drives out saeva indignatio...
...fanatic can be both wise and wily. Indeed, the fanatic has a distinct advantage in choosing means. So utterly convinced is he of the rightness of his ends that he lacks ordinary inhibiting scruples in his choice of means. He need consider only their instrumental value, not their moral valence. Not for him messy moral conflicts when matching means and ends. Everything matches...
While the movie doesn't achieve the full poetic vision of David Lynch's Blue Valvet, Tampopo does have a very different flavor to it not found in most, if any, American flicks. This unique feel stems from its Asian perspective on men and women, which is distinct from the Western perspective. Though Gun is set up to be a typical, macho western cowboy hero, he is no Pygmalion. The window Tampopo is neither a statue-like work of art nor an Adam's rib. She is closer to the archetypal woman warrior, strong and in control...