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...that the scene serve as a point of transition and departure. In an almost music-video-like sequence, a distraught Manuela peruses the local transvestite meat market. She does not find Lola, but she does come upon La Agrado (Antonia San Juan), or the agreeable one, Manuela's transsexual friend. La Agrado is the movie's ironic wit, garnering lines such as a full list of surgery she has undergone to look like an authentic woman: "almond shaped eyes, 80,000, silicone in lips, forehead, cheeks, and ass--the liter costs 60,000 pesetas; you add it up, because...
...Bush, clearly pleased with McCain's kid-glove treatment, said, "Senator McCain is a good man, a good friend...
...apparent reason, from her job working at a factory. From there she attempts to secure other forms of work, but is continually turned down. The search continues, eventually becoming an obsession in her young life, to the point that Rosetta loses touch with her mother, her best friend, and eventually herself. Fortunately, in examining the minute details of this deplorable world, the narrative begins to extrapolate beyond mere plot points, and becomes a searing indictment of the system that Rosetta attempts to indict...
...performance truly remarkable for a woman of 17 (no less a film rookie), Emilie Duquenne, in the title role, fills the lens in every tightly shot frame. Duquenne's performance is one of subtlety and internal calculation. Her vacant expression as she decides whether she should save her drowning friend is absolutely chilling, and the defiance demonstrated when Rosetta catches her mother in an aforementioned compromising position is absolutely remarkable, because she refuses to overplay the character. Such an extent of delicacy and nuance in portrayal is all too rare...
...asked five scientists, Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences John E. Dowling '57, Friend, Georgi, Grosz and Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach to serve on the Ad Hoc Task Force on Faculty Diversity, which is still in its planning stages...