Word: harshness
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...editing of the film also emulates the novel’s perspectival changes as well as its frequent flashbacks. Visually, McEwan’s novel translates wonderfully to film. The score deserves praise for its beauty and originality. During many of the film’s critical moments, the harsh sounds of a typewriter combine with the already striking instrumentation, creating a completely unique synchronization. This jarring but brilliant combination echoes the various tensions in the story—between love and war, loyalty and betrayal, and, most importantly, Briony’s writing and Cecilia and Robbie?...
...doubt anyone was compelled to become a mobster after watching it. The same goes for most cultural phenomenon during any given era, as The Nation contributor Dave Zirin writes: “Music and culture are reflections—sometimes very ugly reflections—of … harsh realities…Blaming hip-hop for our current state is like blaming the pan-flute and zither for the crusades.” In an economy where pop culture is marketed, packaged, and sold, the product must, by necessity, reflect society’s values. Obviously, misogyny, violence...
Many of the bigger houses are now museums where you can study the Karoo's harsh history: the Great Trek, when the Boers left Cape Town for the interior in 1835-40; wars between Europeans and Africans, particularly Zulus; wars among Europeans (the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902); the rise of Afrikaner nationalism and Boer mythology. Not all the area's troubles are past. There's more than a hint of enduring apartheid in the town's layout: colonial mansions for whites in the center, tin shacks for coloreds and blacks on the outskirts. And there's a lingering...
...Where appropriate, we always source locally.”FROM FARM TO FASDuring the fall, local growers supply HUDS with one-third of its produce, including apples, cranberries, squash, and potatoes, according to Zdeb.In the early spring, only 6 percent of HUDS food is produced by local farms because harsh New England winters limit what can be grown.HUDS receive cartons upon cartons of local produce from Costa Fruit and Produce Co. Instead of relying on smaller farms in New England to meet Harvard’s 25,000-meals-a-day demands, HUDS turned to Costa to send loaded trucks...
...driving Afghanistan into chaos by permitting the ruthless mujahideen warlords to take control and refusing to work with even moderate factions of the Taliban. Initially, her portrayal of the mujahideen as ruthlessly bloodthirsty, the United States as laughably ignorant, and the international community as brutally uncaring seems harsh. But her seemingly sweeping generalizations gradually become more concrete, her claims substantiated through the incidents she cites. Though she gives the four-year rule of the mujahideen a close look, the real crux of the book is the Taliban as it ascends and eventually falls at the hands of US troops.Her story...