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...Fellini does not dwell on any one episode long enough for the audience to set its PC compass. Snaporaz flits between aging but incorrigible Romeo and misunderstood old man. His female assailants behave with both sympathy and cruelty. The action lurches from suffragette rallies to phallus-filled boudoirs, from women-run dungeons to sexual fair-grounds for men. The movie builds its perspective on the pace and variety of many surreal sexual encounters, rather than a single moralistic take on the war between the sexes...
...Jewish separatism, dared to tempt the Jewish people with a life outside the fortress. Beginning with his 1992 Inaugural speech, he demanded that Israelis stop regarding themselves as a permanently ghettoized people and repudiate the biblical prophecy--or curse--that decreed that the Jews as a "people shall dwell alone and shall not be reckoned among the nations." By their presence, the dozens of foreign leaders who came as mourners to Rabin's funeral disproved that prophecy...
...which transcends reason. The United States is a reasonable country. The Holocaust will never happen again, unless we are so blinded by isolationism to let it happen. And slavery and segregation of different races will never happen again. We have learned from history, so there is no need to dwell...
Many people are stuck because they dwell on the bad parts of history. Knowing your history is wonderful and productive, as long as you know all of it, and not just some parts of it. The ethnic groups should overlook the history of the United States, because their history is almost entirely bad and negative. Instead they should remember their ancestral history from their native lands. The one thing the Europeans colonists robbed from the black community and other ethnic groups was their history, and hence their identity and sense of pride. Black people and other minorities need to reclaim...
...Anwar Sadat. The Egyptian President--Rabin's mirror image in the Middle East conflict, killed not by his nominal enemies, but by those among his own people who accused him of treachery. Rabin joins the ranks of such men, and that is why his assassination causes such heartsickness. Dwell on the matter, and realism turns to despair--the good get shot, and the evil die in their beds...