Word: faraway
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...stars on Gulumbu Yunupingu's ceiling, it is no longer a sign of exotic otherness, but something that can unite everyone under the one roof. "Sometimes we make a fire," says Yunupingu. "We sit around the fire and look up into the sky. Big ones, small ones, little ones-faraway, close. Yolngu, everybody around the world loves to see them." In Paris, they're sparkling...
...where the U.S. stops and Mexico begins," says Laredo mayor Betty Flores. "It's where the U.S. blends into Mexico." Both sides regard their sovereign governments as distant and dysfunctional. They are proud of their ability to take care of themselves, solve their problems faster and cheaper than any faraway bureaucrat. The Brownsville, Texas, fire trucks answer sirens on the other side; in Tijuana, Mexico, health clinics send shuttle buses every morning to meet people coming over for everything from dentistry to dialysis. The school district in Mission, Texas, among the state's poorest, sends its old furniture over...
...will ignore the reviews and give it lots of Oscar nominations. But as one of the movie?s admirers, I?m sticking to my story: that this far-East fairy tale, about the geisha Cinderella (Zhang Ziyi), her wicked stepsister (Gong Li), her fairy godmother (Michelle Yeoh) and the faraway prince (Ken Watanabe) she dreams of, is a delicate, robust and emotionally satisfying throwback to the sweeping romances Hollywood once specialized in and now mostly ignores. Its visual splendor never obscures the furtive, assertive heart beating under the kimono. I loved seeing most of my favorite Chinese actresses...
...reflection—a Western perspective on an Asian perspective on animal life—it shares the positive connotations of the painting. “Evocative Creatures” gives viewers a window into the foreign world of centuries-old East Asia, a world perhaps as mysterious and faraway to many Cantabrigians as the painting’s moon is to its gibbons. “Animal Motifs” runs until June...
...more than historical veracity at work in that shot. The Twin Towers are the symbols of our new age of high (and endless) anxiety. Maybe there is, as Spielberg insists, no resonance between the fate of the Towers' victims and the fate of a few athletes in long-ago, faraway Munich. But inevitably the destiny of those Towers tinctures our thoughts, however much we wish to deny them. Dutiful men like Avner Kauffman will be sent forth to improvise a response to terrorism, whatever its source. And to live with the unintended consequences of their actions. Any movie that subtly...