Word: mississipi
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...done just about every job there,” Block said. She worked her way from booker to producer before becoming a reporter for the show in 1993—a job that took her everywhere from the day-after debris of Sept. 11, 2001 to a reeling Mississipi in the wake of Hurricane Katrina...
...point. Instead, as the preparations for an arranged marriage between two wealthy New Delhi families unfold, we engage in the heady rush towards the cosmopolitanism which India’s burgeoning middle classes have so eagerly embraced. Mira Nair ’79 of Salaam Bombay and Mississipi Masala fame has often been criticized for selling Indian poverty in documentary form to the West. Monsoon Wedding represents a stark departure from these previous features. Making little or no attempt to represent income disparities, it instead celebrates the joys of excess and consumption, perfectly illustrated through the analogy of a wedding...