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...mutes the melodrama inherent in Aaron's encounters with crime, illness and loss. Aaron must improvise his response to events without fully understanding them, and that comes closer to the truth about boyhood than most movies do. It was a directorial mistake to bathe the images in a soft glow. But that visual error is not compounded psychologically. The film has a tough core, and in a time when movies about the troubles of little boys are a sentimental subgenre and dysfunction is being too easily overcome, there is something exemplary about this smart little movie...
...second group in three days to defect from the Liberal Democrats, is considered the most likely to pull together a coalition able to oust what is left of Japan's unruly and unroyal dynasty. Once the managers of Japan's rise to economic-superpower status under the warm glow of its alliance with the U.S., the Liberal Democrats today are noted for a single, sordid attribute: corruption. Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa sank to a lowly 9% approval rating two weeks ago after he buckled under party pressure and failed to deliver promised anticorruption legislation, despite intense popular demands...
...uses of material. Included in the Venice show are some of her recent cage sculptures, including Cell (Choisy), a harsh essay on memory: inside an iron-mesh enclosure is a pink marble effigy of her childhood home in France, where her parents repaired Gobelin carpets. It has the enticing glow of a Magritte villa at dusk, but above the door to the cage, ready to be tripped, is a guillotine blade. You can't go home again...
...Saturday nights, as many as 300 young women line the margins of E55, a Czech highway near the German border. Their costumes vary: light frocks, skimpy red dresses, glow-in-the-dark Spandex pants. They speak a babel of languages: Czech, Romanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, German. But they have only one thing to sell...
...reached political consciousness in a world where our biggest enemy suddenly stopped being the monolithic Communist empire, and instead turned out to be the insidious dictators of small nations. While in high school, we basked in the glow of corporatism; life never felt much more dire than a Saturday-afternoon detention. Then drugs stopped being cool as crack hit the scene. Casual sex became an even bigger taboo in the age of AIDS...