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...only is the camera finally still (his earlier films were often shot on hand-held cameras), but the angles are expertly measured to give a messy apartment and a Mediterranean horizon the same sense of space. Vistas overflow with color. “Contempt” is a visual feast, and only one from Godard’s formidable filmography.As one of the pioneers of the French New Wave movement, along with the likes of François Truffaut and Éric Rohmer, Godard seemed to concern himself not only with subverting ideas of genre and dramatic distance...
...appealed to Taliban leader Mullah Omar for peace and offered to talk. And in September, during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, representatives of Karzai's government sat with former Taliban leaders and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah in Mecca to discuss Afghanistan's problems over a sunset feast of more than 100 dishes. Both Karzai's government and Afghanistan's current Taliban leadership deny that any negotiations took place. But one of the attendees, Abdul Salam Zaeef, the former representative of the Taliban's Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in Pakistan before its overthrow in 2001, characterized the meeting...
...What is Pentecostalism? Pentecostals are named for the feast of Pentecost described in the New Testament Book of Acts as taking place shortly after Jesus' ascension into heaven. During the feast, his followers were said to have been "filled with the Holy Spirit" and gained the ability to speak in many different languages, or "tongues." The modern Pentecostal movement is relatively new - just over 100 years old - and is usually dated to the Azusa Street Revival that began in Los Angeles in 1906. (The revival was a nine-year series of near continuous worship services that popularized Pentecostal worship...
...best novel I've read in a long, long, long, long time...a literary feast of a book," Winfrey gushed on her show, saying it deserved to enter the cannon alongside works by John Steinbeck and Harper...
...drank himself into (and out of) depression. An American in Paris, I couldn’t help but think about that earlier, more famous group of Americans in Paris: Fitzgerald, Stein, Miller, Hemingway. (The fact that every other person I spoke to brought up “A Moveable Feast,” the precious book where Hemingway nostalgically trashes all of his friends and mentors, only encouraged this train of thought.) And so, with only a week left, I finally succumbed to a friend’s insistence that I read “The Sun Also Rises...