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...encouraged by the efforts of the Iraqi government for national reconciliation? It needs a government that would leave no stone unturned and move heaven and earth in order to get the national reconciliation going on, and we haven't seen, unfortunately, such an effort until...
...fact, the movie is a compendium of not-so-hot ideas - aside from the controlling one, which is inherently daring and at least theoretically interesting. One can understand an ambitious filmmaker like Haynes, whose Far From Heaven was a quite successful Douglas Sirk pastiche, being fed up with biopic clich?s and pieties, and trying radically to reanimate the genre. The trouble is that he does not escape these conventions in I'm Not There. He just dresses them in different clothes. Most basically, this is the same old-same old - visionary artist struggles successfully to realize his particular vision, gets...
...bunch of people sitting at lunch and disagreeing with each other," quips Marc Levy, one of France's best-selling novelists. (His Et si c'Etait Vrai... , published in English as If Only It Were True, became the 2005 Hollywood film Just Like Heaven starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo.) "An hour and a half later, they are sitting at dinner, and some are agreeing while others are disagreeing." France today can make slick, highly commercial movies - Amélie, Brotherhood of the Wolf - but for many foreigners the taint of talkiness lingers...
...North America, on the other hand, is heli-ski heaven - think Colorado's Rockies, Utah's Wasatch Mountains, the Canadian Rockies and rugged Alaska. In the U.S., try Diamond Peaks, www.diamondpeaks.com, or Heli Trax, www.helitrax.com - both have access to some of the best snow. In Alaska, Points North, www.alaskaheliski.com, offers heli-ski cruises to the Chugach Mountains. Skiers spend a week flying from the back of a cruising vessel that serves as a floating inn. Across the border is the world's most extensive heli-ski operation, Canadian Mountain Holidays, www.canadianmountainholidays.com. It runs 12 remote lodges dotted around stunning terrain...
...first week back was quite secular, aside from forays to Hillel for the best food on campus. But my interest in the Bible was rekindled when I decided to take a course on the literature of the medieval world. Reading about Paul’s journey to the Third Heaven and the Apocalypse, I came to appreciate the Bible academically, from the history of its creation to its later influence on pretty much all of Western literature. However, absent was the deep spiritual and emotional connection with the good book that I had heard so much about from televangelists...