Word: isaiah
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...Saying peace, peace, when there is no peace"--so reads the verse from Isaiah. It is an unbearably harsh truth to accept that, for the very reason that he was the most prominent of those saying peace, Yitzhak Rabin has become the most terrible illustration that there is no peace. If the wages of peacemaking are death, then we are all lost. Let us believe what the soldier believes, that death partners peace, and that in Rabin's martyrdom there is hope...
...Harvey Keitel) is a homicide detective whose cynicism energizes rather than wearies him. He'll match his street smarts against any neighborhood punk's, and he's convinced that Strike must have murdered a rival drug dealer. The only other logical suspect is the kid's older brother Victor (Isaiah Washington), but that makes no sense; the man is working two jobs to support a wife and two kids, trying to engineer a respectable rise in the world...
From memory, he recites a lengthy passage from the 58th chapter of Isaiah, which has served as a rallying cry for FAST: "Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter--when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood...
...opportunities, visit a theater near you. Nearly 20 years after fighting off a big gorilla's advances in King Kong, Lange is a one-woman cottage industry. The Oscar win has brought Blue Sky back into limited release, prior to an April 18 debut in video stores. In Losing Isaiah, she stars as an adoptive mother in a custody battle. And beginning this Friday she can be seen in Rob Roy, Michael Caton-Jones' epic of a legendary Scotsman (Liam Neeson) and the woman who shared his pain and cheered...
...trophy in Losing Isaiah, written by Naomi Foner and directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal, is a black child whose drug-addict mother (Halle Berry) dumped him in a garbage can shortly after his birth. Now he is two-and the point of contention in a tug-of-love between the mother and the family that raised him. Isaiah plays as a court case, with evidence and arguments for each side. But in movie terms, the case is stacked against Lange: next to Berry's radiant youth, she looks sere and exhausted. It is one of those dares a maturing female star...