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...Wiranatha knows that fate dealt him a survivor card this time around?one of his bars, the sophisticated Ku DE Ta in Seminyak, is managing to stay afloat due to a loyal expat clientele?but he worries about others. "We have a ceremony to send the victims to heaven, but what about those left behind? Those who lost a father, a business, how do they eat, how do they send their children to school?" If the tourists don't come back, or another bomb hits the region, Wiranatha knows that as a last resort, he can always return...
...have required "a blank check," which was out of the question. The mood on Collis' picket line was bitter, only broken by noisy cheers as passing motorists responded to a sign saying honk if you support us. The anger was directed at the government: How could Labour - Labour, for Heaven's sake! - refuse to find money for deserving workers when it was prepared to pay out hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money for a war with Iraq? Says Collis, "I was a Tory, but have voted twice for Labour since 1997 - not again." Collis earns €3,900 a year...
...have cut up mine own Anatomy," wrote John Donne, "dissected myself, and they are gone to read on me." This knowledge also gave writers a vocabulary that opened up new imaginative worlds. Donne describes the soul of a young girl, as it races through the stars and toward heaven, as "the pith, which, lest our bodies slack, / Strings fast the little bones of neck, and back; / So by the soul doth death string heaven and earth." Someone who hadn't seen a body dissected might have been able to draw the parallel, but probably not with the razor-sharp language...
This imputes to the European-born director an intention not entirely supported by his work. But writer-director Todd Haynes, whose far from heaven is both a perfect pastiche of and a passionate homage to Sirk, makes the best possible case for him. Haynes encountered sirk when he was studying film at brown university and soon enough--possibly because haynes is a gay man, all too familiar with bourgeois hostility to sexual nonconformity--became hooked. "Sirk was trying to approach these Ladies Home Journal properties with a kind of critical distance," says Haynes, "critiquing dominant American cultures and a sort...
...unlike Sirk, he has actors who can play a fuller emotional range than the stiffish likes of Lana Turner and Rock Hudson. Quaid makes a decent man's anguish richly palpable. Moore makes us feel hidden frenzy with a cool and ultimately heartbreaking grace. As a result, Far from Heaven ironizes without parodying an antique screen manner, then reaches out from beneath this smooth cover to grab us. It's the Sirk movie--fully alert to all his shadowy implications--that Sirk may or may not have intended but never actually made...