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...tensions boil over, the ironic dialogue gets hotter. Ana Luisa exclaims, in agony, "Oh, if only my mother were alive!" and, in anger, "I'd kill myself if my mother were black." (Hearing that, José Carlos slaps her.) Mercé, ground down by the ill feelings, is getting weaker. And when Ana Luisa calls her a "damn black woman" and strikes her," José Carlos shouts the words the movie has been steaming toward: "Don't! She is your mother!" Revelation; guilt; death; renewal. Sensation...
...their diverse subjects, the works in this exhibit possess similarly dynamic and compact compositions. Léger concentrates the energy in the center of each image with tightly arranged tubes and cubes that explode off the paper and rush at the viewer. White and black shapes interrupt the tan ground while curved lines abut sharp edges, creating the illusion of depth. The deconstructed shapes that Léger uses are reminiscent of cubism, but the depth that is created sets his work apart from artists more traditionally associated with the movement. The exhibit is well constructed and provides an important...
...basic need for survival, are both pointless and profound—but then again, so are those she sees outside. “I thought: the vanity of writing, the vanity of destruction,” she says. “I thought: because I wrote, I stood my ground...I thought: the two acts are related, writing and destruction, hiding and being found. Then I sat on the toilet and closed my eyes. Then I fell asleep. Then I woke up.” But “The Savage Detectives” is much more than a novel...
...trip next month to Brazil, the first ocean crossing and first time among the fervent flock of the Third World, will further test both the pastoral and political aspects of his job, as Latin America continues to deal with widespread poverty and the continent's Catholics increasingly lose ground to Evangelical movements. Still the Pope has managed to keep up his writings, including the conclusion of a book he began in 2003 on the life of Jesus, which comes out Monday in Italian and German, and next month in English...
...Morales' middle ground has allowed him to not fall totally out of favor with either his economic partner or his support base. Pressure, though, is mounting...