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...Poseidon, Richard Dreyfuss tries to flee a sinking ship. In real life, he's trying to right America's course. Jaws, Hello Down There, Poseidon--what's it like to be the Laurence Olivier of underwater acting? Oh, not hard. I just hold my breath and think of Shakespeare...
...sustained attention. But what of other natural catastrophes, like the tsunami in Indonesia? Or the Iranian city of Bam, which, on Dec. 26, 2003 - exactly a year before the Indonesian tsunami - was leveled by an earthquake. Of the 100,000 inhabitants, 30,000 died. The rest were left to flee, or live in rubble. In the poignant Voices of Bam, Dutch filmmakers Mariana Van Der Horst and Maasja Ooms patrol the devastated town and tiptoe into the minds of those who remain; the survivors speak, in poetic voiceover, of the family, the wives and lovers who live only in their...
...painted into a florescent, glittery, upbeat production—without losing reverence or appreciation for Aristophanes’ original classic. “The Birds,” as its title hints, is in fact, all about birds. Two Athenians, who are on the run because they owe money, flee to the birds in a desperate attempt to evade their debts. The ambitious Peisetaerus (Alex N. Chase-Levenson ’08) and sidekick Euelpides (Fred C. Brown ’06) soon devise a bizarre plan to found a kingdom of birds under his rule and to take over...
...went to live in Onsong, a town near the border with China, and quickly decided that she would try to flee again. Her mother and an older sister had followed her out of North Korea and were living in Heilongjiang, a province in northeastern China. Refugees say the most common way to cross the 900-mile North Korea-- China border is to bribe a guard on the Korean side. Kim, however, relied on a friend who lived near the border and each night watched the routes patrolled by the guards. "You knew where they were going to be and where...
...neighborhood of Gangabu, another hotbed of protests, the police have just fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protestors, and many have scattered. Ram Bahadur, a stone cutter, is watching the protestors flee from behind the safety of the wire-mesh screen in his backyard. He is surrounded by large pieces of marble, which he cuts for people building their houses - white marble, good for making stairs, and imitation green mable for the kitchens. Since the movement began, though, no one has bought any marble. "I want all this to end, I'll tell you that," he mumbles...