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...course, isolated to p.n.g. Developing countries across the globe are suffering from the rich nations' fascination with their exotic ways of life. From Nigerian terracotta busts and Malay skulls to Iraqi statues and Afghan coins, an enthusiastic trade has developed in selling off the icons of exotic cultures to grace the living rooms and galleries of Europe, America and Asia. "Trafficking in cultural property has become not only a lucrative business for certain traders, but also an extremely tempting source of additional income for populations living in poverty, above all in the country of origin of the cultural goods," notes...
...heavy subject of euthanasia Urale next lent a winning mix of lightness and grace in her short Still Life (2001), which brought her more trophies, including top prize at the Montreal Film Festival. The filmmaker focused on an elderly white couple slowly drowning under the weight of illness, neglect from their children, and love for each other. But Urale's tenderness and respect for the aged (her camera caresses their wrinkled skin) are typically Samoan. More a cautionary tale than a call for euthanasia, "it hits a real nerve with people," the director says. "And particularly it reminds people...
...know where the bus leaves from these days-it?s hardly a fitting outing for Caroline or Jack or Mary Grace (our children, who wouldn?t be allowed anyway as they are seven, five and five years of age), so I no longer go. But back then, when Berry was in charge of it, the tradition was for the bus to pull away from a specific curb in Westport, Connecticut. ?The trip starts in front of Mario?s bar,? Powers told me emphatically, when giving me my first marching orders. This only substantiated for me an already pretty solid conviction...
...Example: Henrik, the most tortured of this quartet, is allowed to reveal his charm before his pain, then his white-hot hatred, are allowed to postulate. Similarly, flashes of grace appear, like epiphanies in the January snow. In church, after Marianne has been singed by Henrik's rage against his father, beams of sunlight burst through the window; it is the visual counterpart of the organ chord that greeted Marianne as she entered. Later there's a privileged moment when Karin is told of a career opportunity and the ecstasy of anticipation briefly floods her face, as radiant as that...
...Pennyweight Windows By Donald Revell it takes guts to write more poems about peace, war, God and children, but Revell's are so fresh, it's as if he's the first person ever to do it. He makes you feel how painfully near grace and redemption are at all times, and yet how unattainable. "If you know the taste of your own heart and like it," he writes, "Come into the woods to the red house/ Whose windows explode from the walls and wash/ Me clean...