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...agitated rhythm and the desaturated color scheme from Children of God (another dystopian English-language social parable from a Latin American director); but his characters are as flaccid as those in so many Euro-films we've seen at Cannes over the years. Their feet glued to the floor, they stand in place and wait for destiny to do its worst. It's enough to make you wish that some Hollywood high hack like Michael Bay had taken over and told the cast, "Movies are about doing something. Let's go blow up stuff...
...Chengdu the shocks from the quake went on for several minutes, sending crowds of people into the streets. A local journalist said he did not see any collapsed buildings, but "a woman living on the fourth floor was complaining about her apartment wall cracking up, and a man was lamenting over his computer that fell to the floor from the desk...
...children-now shelter. Kyaw Zin Htay is too weak to struggle or cry when his mother pulls aside the blanket to display his emaciated limbs. He survived Burma's biggest natural disaster in living memory, but his short life will almost certainly end here, on a fly-blown concrete floor in a broken-down temple, waiting for help that might never come...
...growing concern within the Democratic Party that Clinton's chief legacy in this campaign will be a mortally wounded Democratic candidate for the general election. It is a concern that Clinton refutes, showing every sign that she remains determined to take her case all the way to the convention floor. "It is so important that we count the votes of Florida and Michigan," Clinton announced Tuesday night, a prospect that is sure to divide the party through the summer. "It would be a little strange to have a nominee chosen by 48 states...
...This, of course, is only the beginning of the show’s crazed perverseness. When Sweeney returns to London after spending 15 years in exile on a trumped-up charge, the former barber re-opens his “tonsorial parlour” on Fleet Street, one floor up from the meat pie shop run by Mrs. Lovett (Rachel E. Flynn ’09). Business is bad, naturally, and the price of meat is outrageous. Sweeney needs a way to dispose of his impeccably shaved victims. The two enter into a kind of, ahem, professional partnership. Dee-licious...